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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/copy.rst
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Expand Up @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ copy operations:
* Recursive objects (compound objects that, directly or indirectly, contain a
reference to themselves) may cause a recursive loop.

* Because deep copy copies *everything* it may copy too much, e.g.,
even administrative data structures that should be shared even between copies.
* Because deep copy copies everything it may copy too much, such as data
which is intended to be shared between copies.

The :func:`deepcopy` function avoids these problems by:

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Expand Up @@ -770,6 +770,7 @@ Lawrence Kesteloot
Vivek Khera
Dhiru Kholia
Akshit Khurana
Sanyam Khurana
Mads Kiilerich
Jason Killen
Jan Kim
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