On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:05:09PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Rich Healey <healey.r...@gmail.com> 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....) > > > > the same thing. I agree that the language can be improved, though. > There is no need to bring in assignment to explain that a[:] makes a > copy of list a. Please create a documentation issue at
Better still, add your doc change suggestion (possible explanation) to this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue9021 -- Senthil _______________________________________________ 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
