Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment:

"shallow copy" and "deep copy" are both standard computer science terms by no 
means unique to or invented by Python.  We should be cautious about 
documentation bloat and trying to redefine standard terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_copy#Shallow_copy

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