Python/deep & shallow copy error

[AnkurKumarShukla]

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Issue line : # Make a one layer deep copy using slices li2 = li[:] # => li2 = [1, 2, 4, 3] but (li2 is li) will result in false.

[AnkurKumarShukla]

Make a one layer deep copy using slices

li2 = li[:] # => li2 = [1, 2, 4, 3] but (li2 is li) will result in false.

in this line it say it create deep copy . but its found that it create shallow copy

[jklebes]

Well spotted, that is not a deep copy.

I think it's simply an error of unclear writing. The original comment author meant "a one-layer-deep copy" , i.e a shallow copy, while @AnkurKumarShukla and many others read "a one-layer deep-copy", i.e. a type of deep copy.

I will fix and PR.

BTW I checked if the confusion has propagated to other languages.

French has it right, the line doesn't exist in German, Spanish, Turkish Italian quotes the ambiguous English Vietnamese quotes the wrong English Interpretation. pt-br probably translated the wrong interpretation I don't know about arabic, czech, russian, japanese, Chinese

Help needed: Someone to correct

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Someone to check. Arabic, Czech, Russian, Japanese, Chinese