how to copy a dictionary

[Gordon McMillan]

dictionaries have a copy() method.

Roy Smith asks:
> If I do:
> 
> d = {'hedgehog': 'spiney norman'}
> temp = d
> temp['scotsman'] = 'earnest potgorney'
> 
> I end up changing the original dictionary, d.  It's obvious that
> what's going on is when I do temp = d I get a pointer to the same
> object instead of a new object.  My question is, how do I force a
> new object to be created, so when  modify it, I don't also modify
> the original? --
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- Gordon