[docs] Dear Python.org

[Berker Peksağ]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:28 PM,  <resolvent at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dear Python.org,
>
> I'm in a bit of an overwhelmed situation right now,
> so I did not know whom to ask.
>
> So, I was direct & attached my .py program.
>
> Why does my variable
> coordinates
> get destroyed along with
> coord
> when I remove elements from it?
> It shouldn't.
> Only coord should get destroyed.
>
> A family member who is an expert programmer tells me I need to make a
> deepcopy
> of coordinates.
>
> But, I see absolutely no mention of the word
> deepcopy
> in either your tutorial or PDF of references.  I did a word/phrase search
> for
> deepcopy
> and
> shallow copy.
>
> Only passing mention was made of
> shallow copy
> on page 9 of your tutorial.

Hi John,

The copy.deepcopy documentation is here:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html If you use Python 2, the
correct link is https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/copy.html

--Berker

>
> Please help!
> Thanks,
> John
>
> P.S. I absolutely need formal structured schooling to learn any language:
> human or computer.  This trying to learn it on my own stuff has never
> worked,
> because I spend days, weeks, months , years searching & searching
> for the right statement.
>
> I got As in Fortran (1981), C++ (2005) & even passed an online Java course
> (2012)
> but I never made use of programming outside formal courses.
>
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