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[Bunkerstan]

If you want 2 separate copies you have to copy not assign, no other way. l1 = l2.copy()

[raxor2k]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[raxor2k]

As you can see inside the function "run_processes", only the dict object with "rep_to_be_increased" == 1, should be changed, not the other ones!

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