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

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1724...

Accepted answer links:
[docs]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/copy.ht...

Answer 3 links:
[assignment]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simp...
[copy]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.h...
[deepcopy]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.h...

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