[Python-Dev] docs - Copy

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 06:54:07 CEST 2010


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.rich at 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


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