Hopefully I asked this question correctly. I have the code example:
class myc:
a = ['a', 'b']
def f1(self):
b = myc.a
b.extend(['c', 'd'])
return b
def f2(self):
b = myc.a
b.extend(['f','g'])
return b
cvar = myc()
print cvar.f1()
print cvar.f2()
print cvar.f1()
I get the output:
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g']
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g', 'c', 'd']
What I want is for "a" to be static.
My understanding is that because of "binding", when I do "b = myc.a" and I then do "b.extend...", I am actually affecting myc.a.
What I want is to make a copy of myc.a and store it in b so that my operations on b, don't affect myc.a.
I am obviously missing some basic Python concept here beyond binding.
The output I want is:
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
['a', 'b', 'f', 'g']
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
