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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, terry.reedy, tim.golden, tshepang
Date 2012-02-25.09:54:35
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> FWIW it's pretty much the only way of saying what it means.

However, even using "not deep" here would still be ambiguous.  What's a deep copy?  What's a non-deep copy?
Using "shallow" might be a problem, but the real problem is that regardless of the wording, the reader might not know what this is all about.
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2012-02-25 09:54:36ezio.melottisetrecipients: + ezio.melotti, terry.reedy, tim.golden, eric.araujo, docs@python, tshepang, Ramchandra Apte
2012-02-25 09:54:36ezio.melottisetmessageid: <1330163676.52.0.0512165248649.issue14112@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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