# coding: latin-1 import copy l = [ [i] for i in range(0,3)] ll = copy.deepcopy (l) print l, " - ", ll # affiche [[0], [1], [2]] - [[0], [1], [2]] ll [0][0] = 6 print l, " - ", ll # affiche [[0], [1], [2]] - [[6], [1], [2]]