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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 97065af..f6339a7 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -482,6 +482,12 @@ concatenated and so on:: >>> 3*a[:3] + ['Boo!'] ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'Boo!'] +All slice operations return a new list containing the requested elements. This +means that the following slice returns a shallow copy of the list *a*:: + + >>> a[:] + ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234] + Unlike strings, which are *immutable*, it is possible to change individual elements of a list:: |