On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail / ssalewski.de> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 07:00 +0900, niklas | brueckenschlaeger wrote: >> Are you sure you can't rework your code to *not* copy data 5x? > > The code is related to handling configuration files, I have a basic ok, try also something like, a,b,c,d,e =[x.dup]*5 best regards -botp