Why doesn't deepcopy work on strings ?

[Rene Pijlman]

Tony C:
>Why doesn't deepcopy() on a string make a deep copy of that string ?
>
>Would someone explain this ..
>import copy
>s1="monty python"
>s2=copy.deepcopy(s1)
>id(s1)
>19114192
>id(s2)
>19114192 

You're testing for identity instead of value. I can assure you
that the strings are copies when you print them both :-)

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