New submission from anatoly techtonik :
`copy` module covers very important aspect of Python programming. However its documentation doesn't provide any intro or overview of this problem starting right from details. When people meet `copy` construction in the code - the refer to module documentation and its doesn't completely answer two basic questions they have:
1. why copy module is needed (i.e. what's the problem with var assignment)
2. when and where it should be used
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 108069
nosy: docs@python, techtonik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: no copy.copy problem description
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue9021
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