What is the difference between shallow copy, deepcopy and normal assignment operation?
The difference between shallow and deep copying is only relevant for
compound objects (objects that contain other objects, like lists or
class instances):
deep-copy
How to deep copy a list?
After E0_copy = list(E0), I guess E0_copy is a deep copy of E0 since id(E0) is not equal to id(E0_copy). Then I modify E0_copy in the loop, but why is E0 not the same after?
Copying nested lists in Python
I want to copy a 2D list, so that if I modify one list, the other is not modified.
Does a slicing operation give me a deep or shallow copy?
The official Python docs say that using the slicing operator and assigning in Python makes a shallow copy of the sliced list.
How can I make a deepcopy of a function in Python?
I would like to make a deepcopy of a function in Python. The copy module is not helpful, according to the documentation, which says:
How to create a copy of a python function
It does “copy” functions and classes (shallow and deeply), by
returning the original object unchanged;