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    The document compares mutating lists through indexed assignment, append, insert, pop, and reverse methods versus constructing lists through list literals, the list constructor, copy operations, slicing, and list comprehensions. It then discusses the difference between shallow and deep copying in Python, where shallow copying only duplicates object references and deep copying duplicates objects and recursively copies their contents.

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    The document compares mutating lists through indexed assignment, append, insert, pop, and reverse methods versus constructing lists through list literals, the list constructor, copy operations, slicing, and list comprehensions. It then discusses the difference between shallow and deep copying in Python, where shallow copying only duplicates object references and deep copying duplicates objects and recursively copies their contents.

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    The document compares mutating lists through indexed assignment, append, insert, pop, and reverse methods versus constructing lists through list literals, the list constructor, copy operations, slicing, and list comprehensions. It then discusses the difference between shallow and deep copying in Python, where shallow copying only duplicates object references and deep copying duplicates objects and recursively copies their contents.

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    Mutation vs.

    Construction

    Mutating the List Constructing the List


    indexed assignment (lst[i] = x) list literals ([1, 2, 3], [])
    append method list constructor (list(x))
    insert method copy.copy()
    pop method copy.deepcopy()
    reverse method + operator
    sort method * operator
    slicing (lst[ __ : __])
    list comprehension

    ● stores the copy of the original object and points the references to the objects

    ● import copy → copy.copy(x)

    ● lst.copy()

    ● + operator

    ● * operator

    ● by default, most python operations are shallow copy (default copy.copy is shallow)
    ● stores the copy of the original object and recursively copies the objects as well

    ● import copy → copy.deepcopy(x [,memo])

    When copying a compound object, like a list or dictionary, shallow copy makes a copy of the

    compound object and makes references to the objects in the compound object. Deep copy makes

    a copy of the compound object and all the objects in the compound object.

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