Deepcopying a byte string is quicker than copying it - problem?

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/27/2014 4:02 AM, Frank Millman wrote:

>> However, deepcopying a byte string is orders of magnitude quicker than
>> copying it.
>>
>> Actually, looking closer, it is the 'copy' that is slow, not the
>> 'deepcopy' that is quick..

> I have created an issue on the bug tracker -
> http://bugs.python.org/issue20791

Fixed, 12 hours later.

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Terry Jan Reedy