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Updated docstring for copy() method
agartland Mar 18, 2016
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Explicit description of deep for True and False
agartland Mar 23, 2016
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion pandas/core/generic.py
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Expand Up @@ -2952,7 +2952,12 @@ def copy(self, deep=True):
Parameters
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deep : boolean or string, default True
Make a deep copy, i.e. also copy data
Make a deep copy, i.e. also copy data.
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change this to something like:

deep also copy the indexes (its not the data that addtionally gets copied; a shallow copy does this).


Note that when ``deep=True`` data is copied unless ``dtype=object``,
in which case only the reference to the object is copied. This is
in contrast to ``copy.deepcopy`` in the Standard Library, which
recursively copies object data.

Returns
-------
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