copy method shallow copies data

[danielhrisca]

The copy method does just a shallow copy. If you modify a channel in the initial mdf object you will see this in the copied object as well.

[ratal]

Hi Daniel, Yes indeed this is a shallow copy. I guess you expected a deepcopy() ? I only had the need for this copy function with mdfconverter in mdfreaderui4/5.py

[danielhrisca]

Hello Aymeric,

yes, my first assumption was that it was meant to perform a deep copy

[ratal]

What is your use case for this deepcopy in mdfreader ? You are the first one to mention about this. As mdf class is mostly a dict with a few attributes, it is not that complicated to apply deepcopy I think, but as usual heavy.

[ratal]

I made the documentation of this function more clear by stating this is a shallow copy of object. Do you need deepcopy in mdfreader ?

[danielhrisca]

The clarification is enough