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Author rhettinger
Recipients eric.smith, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date 2010-11-24.02:16:53
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Guido approved these both in a thread earlier this year.

The reasoning for copy() was the same as for clear(), some folks couldn't cope with:

   b = a[:]
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