What is the difference between shallow copy, deepcopy and normal assignment operation?

What is the difference between shallow copy, deepcopy and normal assignment operation?

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How to deep copy a list?

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Copying nested lists in Python

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deepcopy() is extremely slow

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python Pandas DataFrame copy(deep=False) vs copy(deep=True) vs '='

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copy.deepcopy vs pickle

python pickle deep-copy

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How to create a copy of a python function [duplicate]

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Relationship between pickle and deepcopy

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How can I make a deepcopy of a function in Python?

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How to copy a Python class instance if deepcopy() does not work?

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Python dictionary deepcopy

python dictionary deep-copy

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Does a slicing operation give me a deep or shallow copy?

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Why deepcopy of list of integers returns the same integers in memory?

python python-3.x deep-copy

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Remove shared references in list-of-list?

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python multiprocessing arguments: deep copy?

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