On Fri, 25 May 2018 18:06:00 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Downside: while it's all very well to say that this is equivalent to > copy.deepcopy(), that would imply replicating copy.deepcopy's semantics > in the core list type (unless it's actually literally defined as > importing a module and calling a function), and deepcopy is a > complicated function.
Betcha it's not as complicated as the import statement, and the bulk of that is now implemented as pure Python :-) But you make a good point: deep copying is not a trivial operation. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
