Copy operator (was list.remove for Noivces)

[Chris Barker]

Mark Fardal wrote:
> > b = a.copy()
> 
> Not available in Python 1.5.2, as you feared.  Does it behave differently
> than b = copy.copy(a) ?

Probably not.
 
> > In the 7th paragraph of "Array Basics" in my copy of the docs, it says:
> > "functions which return arrays which are simply differnt views of the
> > same data will in fact share their data" This applies to slices, but I
> > agree that that is not made clear AT ALL in that section of the docs.
> 
> Hm, the quoted criterion seems more than slightly circular to me.
> How does it tell you that copy.copy(a) makes a copy of the data, but
> a[:] does not?

It doesn't. All it tells you is that you need to be careful about when
Numeric is making a copy, and when it's not. As I said, this needs more
documentation.

By the way, Numeric2 has been introduced in an early form, and I don't
know if any of this is changing, but maybe we can make an effort to make
it clear in the new docs.

-Chris


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