On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: >> http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html >> >> Just near the bottom it reads: >> >> """Shallow copies of dictionaries can be made using dict.copy(), and >> of lists by assigning a slice of the entire list, for example, >> copied_list = original_list[:].""" >> >> >> Surely this is a typo? To my understanding, copied_list = >> original_list[:] gives you a clean copy (slicing returns a new >> object....) >> > Yes, but it's a shallow copy: the new object references exactly the same > objects as the original list (not copies of those objects). A deep copy > would need to copy any referenced lists, and so on. >
My apologies guys, I see now. I will see if I can think of a less ambiguous way to word this and submit a bug. Thankyou! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
