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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-09-29 14:17:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-09-29 14:17:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 12dc0d96e0b32f3ee0aeba2e93994ff5e11bec29 (patch) | |
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#20135: FAQ entry for list mutation. (See also 6375bf34fff6.)
I accidentally committed this in 6375bf34fff6; this changeset addresses the
last review comments on the patch.
This is a perennial question and something someone opens a ticket for probably
every other month or so, so I'm surprised we didn't already have a FAQ entry
for it.
The original patch was written by M. Votz, refined first by Ezio Melotti and
further refined by me.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/programming.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index abadc95..ffb7e8b 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ There are two factors that produce this result: After the call to :meth:`~list.append`, the content of the mutable object has changed from ``[]`` to ``[10]``. Since both the variables refer to the same -object, accessing either one of them accesses the modified value ``[10]``. +object, using either name accesses the modified value ``[10]``. If we instead assign an immutable object to ``x``:: |