Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshep...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 00:11, Ned Deily <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > "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
Do they mean exactly the same thing in Python as what Wikipedia says? In that case, are links to Wikipedia allowed? Anyways, some explanation (or link) would be needed since many people without a background in computer science are going to read the tutorial. I think the term is not common enough that it can be taken for granted that newbies to Python (readers of the tutorial) will know it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14112> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
