[docs] [issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation

Ezio Melotti report at bugs.python.org
Sat Feb 25 10:54:36 CET 2012


Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:

> FWIW it's pretty much the only way of saying what it means.

However, even using "not deep" here would still be ambiguous.  What's a deep copy?  What's a non-deep copy?
Using "shallow" might be a problem, but the real problem is that regardless of the wording, the reader might not know what this is all about.

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