A couple of OOPython questions

[Hans Nowak]

Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> Reading python books feels a bit like reading Perl books -- although
> OO is there, some fundamental questions are not illuminated, and then
> OO comes after scripting or text, as in the Cookbook!  E.g., a = b is
> a deep copy.  How do you do shallow copy?  What are the equivalent of
> copy constructors?

"a = b" is not a copy at all.  Well, I suppose you could say it copies a 
reference, but that's about it.  Assignment never copies objects, whether deep 
or shallow.

For "real" copying, use the copy module, or the .copy() method if available.

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Hans (hans at zephyrfalcon.org)
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