June 30, 2016
2:52 a.m.
STINNER Victor added the comment:
Because deep copy copies everything it may copy too much, e.g., administrative data structures that should be shared even between copies.
I agree that the sentence sounds wrong. I applied David's patch, it also helped me to understand. Thanks :-) ---------- nosy: +haypo resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27416> _______________________________________