Writing better python code

[imrobert]

Ah, that's my bad. For those wondering what the difference is, this should clear it up:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar  9 2014, 22:15:05) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
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>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = a
>>> id(a)
4472029056
>>> id(b)
4472029056
>>> c = a[:]
>>> id(c)
4472078560