I am just learning python and I am going though the tutorials on https://developers.google.com/edu/python/strings Under the String Slices section s[:] is 'Hello' -- omitting both always gives us a copy of the whole thing (this is the pythonic way to copy a sequence like a string or list) Out of curiosity why wouldn't you just use an = operator? s = 'hello'; bar = s[:] foo = s As far as I can tell both bar and foo have the same value. Continue reading...
