django - Python list not appending correctly in a loop -

i'm doing tweepy/django/nltk project have list update searched tweets. here's part i'm having problem:

query = 'happy' max_tweets=5 search_results = {} sentiments = {} sentilist = [] status in tweepy.cursor(api.search,  q=query).items(max_tweets):     search_results[status.text] = unicode(status.text)     search_results[status.text] = search_results[status.text].replace('|', ' ')     search_results[status.text] = search_results[status.text].replace('\n', ' ')     print(senti.linearsvc10(status.text))     sentiments['tweet'] = unicode(search_results[status.text])     sentiments['sentiment'] = senti.linearsvc10(unicode(status.text))     sentilist.append(sentiments)     print('inloop sentiments')     print sentiments     print('inloop sentilist')     print sentilist  print('sentiments') print sentiments print('sentilist')     print sentilist 

basically, sentiments equal to

{'tweet': 'actual tweet here', 'sentiment': 'pos'} 

so each run of loop, want sentiments append list, end of that, have 5 different objects in list. happens each append sentilist, changes each item in list last object appended. example, following individual sentiments objects:

{'tweet': 'tweet1', 'sentiment': 'pos'} {'tweet': 'tweet2', 'sentiment': 'neg'} {'tweet': 'tweet3', 'sentiment': 'neg'} {'tweet': 'tweet4', 'sentiment': 'pos'} {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'} 

when appending sentilist should be:

[{'tweet': 'tweet1', 'sentiment': 'pos'}, {'tweet': 'tweet2', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet3', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet4', 'sentiment': 'pos'}, {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}] 

but instead becomes:

[{'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}, {'tweet': 'tweet5', 'sentiment': 'neg'}] 

other parts of codes work , feel there's simple solution still can't figure out.

you need make new dictionary sentiments in each loop:

for status in tweepy.cursor(api.search,  q=query).items(max_tweets):     sentiments = {} 

you override values in same dictionary again , again , append same dictionary in each loop. therefore, see values last dictionary update in entries in list sentilist.