Mar 18, 2010 · A shallow copy constructs a new compound object and then (to the extent possible) inserts references into it to the objects found in the original. A deep copy constructs a new compound …

Jan 25, 2011 · To get a fully independent copy of an object you can use the copy.deepcopy() function. For more details about shallow and deep copying please refer to the other answers to this question …

May 6, 2017 · Below code demonstrates the difference between assignment, shallow copy using the copy method, shallow copy using the (slice) [:] and the deepcopy. Below example uses nested lists …

I am working with two files, and I need to copy a few lines from one file and paste them into another file. I know how to copy (yy) and paste (p) in the same file. But that doesn't work for different

The copy module does not use the copy_reg registration module. In order for a class to define its own copy implementation, it can define special methods __copy__() and __deepcopy__(). The former is …

How do I copy a file in Python? copy2(src,dst) is often more useful than copyfile(src,dst) because: it allows dst to be a directory (instead of the complete target filename), in which case the basename of …

Jan 17, 2012 · If you want a copy, the fastest way of doing this would be to save the project. Then make a copy of the entire thing on the File System. Go back into Visual Studio and open the copy (by right …

Aug 12, 2011 · copy.copy doesn't change this at all. If you want to propagate changes even for numbers or strings - here does the immutability show - you have to wrap the numbers and strings in a another …

Unlike other editors, Vim stores copied text in its own clipboard. So, it's very hard for me to copy some text from a webpage and paste it into the current working file. It so happens I have to eit...

import copy new_list = copy.copy(old_list) This is a little slower than list() because it has to find out the datatype of old_list first. If you need to copy the elements of the list as well, use generic …