Fine, I have no choice, but to say I am an outman… I’ve no idea that python slice can be used as a copy of the original array, which, of course, can save us a tons of typing.<\/p>\n
Again, when I talked about slice, I mean array slice, not immutable\/optimized string slice.<\/p>\n
>>> a = [ 1, 2, 3 ]
\n>>> b = a[ : ]<\/p>\n>>> id( a )
\n12822008
\n>>> id( b )
\n17547792<\/p>\n>>> id( a[ 0 ] )
\n505408872
\n>>> id( b[ 0 ] )
\n505408872<\/p><\/blockquote>\n>>> a = ‘123’
\n>>> b = a[ : ]<\/p>\n>>> id( a )
\n12578656
\n>>> id( b )
\n12578656<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"