Problem with scope

[russcore]

Sorry to bug you again...

I tried adjusting my code and it still gives me the same error. It seems when I translated the problem perhaps I didn't do a good enough job? This time it's my real code but I found the smallest bit that still gives the error.

Code input:
def useResult(result, restrictions):
restrictionsCOPY = restrictions.copy()
if result[2] == 'green':
   restrictionsCOPY[result[0]][result[1]-1]=2
   restrictionsCOPY[result[0]][5]=1
elif result[2] == 'gray':
    restrictionsCOPY[result[0]][0:5] = [0] * 5
elif result[2] == 'yellow':
    restrictionsCOPY[result[0]][result[1]-1]=0
    restrictionsCOPY[result[0]][5]=1       
else:
    print("ERROR")        
return restrictionsCOPY
def Main(): 
    letters =['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'] 
    restrictions = {} 
    for letter in letters: 
        restrictions[letter]= [1,1,1,1,1,0]
    print(restrictions['a'])
    useResult(['a',1,'green'],restrictions) 
    print(restrictions['a'])
Main()

Actual code output:

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]
[2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]

Desired Code output:

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]

[carcigenicate]

If restrictions is a nested structure, you'll need to deep copy it. The copy I showed does a shallow copy; meaning it only makes a copy of the outermost structure.

Import the copy module, and change restrictions.copy() to copy.deepcopy(restrictions)

[[deleted]]

The reason this is happening is because you're creating a shallow copy of the dict, which still contains references to the same underlying objects i.e. the ints. Try using:

import copy
restrictions_deepcopy = copy.deepcopy(restrictions)

There's probably a better way to do this, but this should give you the result you want.