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For selling on craigslist, I simply use the anonymous craigslist reply email as a way of screening out those who can't write a coherent email in reply to my ad. It lets me avoid the Nigerian princes and those who have "their agent" send me a check for more than the purchase price and have me wire them the balance or other such foolishness.
Vintage Rare Huffy Single Speed Fixed Gear - $500 Reply to: sale-618125718@craigslist.org Date: 2008-03-25, 12:49PM EDT Here is a sweet, VINTAGE Huffy Strata, perfect for riding around as a city beater, or converting to a fixed gear bike, that I hear are so popular nowadays. It has Shimano SIS derailleurs, which were the first derailleurs EVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD! It's really RARE, being as ...
eBay / CraigsList finds - "Are you looking for one of these!?" Part II
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When reading, list is a reference to the original list, and list[:] shallow-copies the list. When assigning, list (re)binds the name and list[:] slice-assigns, replacing what was previously in the list. Also, don't use list as a name since it shadows the built-in.
The first, [:], is creating a slice (normally often used for getting just part of a list), which happens to contain the entire list, and thus is effectively a copy of the list. The second, list(), is using the actual list type constructor to create a new list which has contents equal to the first list.