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Exercise 6

The following program is nearly identical to that of the previous exercise. However, this time, it should create a shallow copy of dict1. Be careful: you're not allowed to use the copy module in this exercise.`

In addition, before you run this code, can you predict the output values?

dict1 = {
    'a': [{7, 1}, ['aa', 'aaa']],
    'b': ({3, 2}, ['bb', 'bbb']),
}

dict2 = ??? # You may modify the `???` part
            # of this line

print(dict1         is dict2)
print(dict1['a']    is dict2['a'])
print(dict1['a'][0] is dict2['a'][0])
print(dict1['a'][1] is dict2['a'][1])
print(dict1['b']    is dict2['b'])
print(dict1['b'][0] is dict2['b'][0])
print(dict1['b'][1] is dict2['b'][1])

Solution

dict1 = {
    'a': [{7, 1}, ['aa', 'aaa']],
    'b': ({3, 2}, ['bb', 'bbb']),
}

# highlight
dict2 = dict(dict1)
# endhighlight

print(dict1         is dict2)           # False
print(dict1['a']    is dict2['a'])      # True
print(dict1['a'][0] is dict2['a'][0])   # True
print(dict1['a'][1] is dict2['a'][1])   # True
print(dict1['b']    is dict2['b'])      # True
print(dict1['b'][0] is dict2['b'][0])   # True
print(dict1['b'][1] is dict2['b'][1])   # True

Since the constructors for Python's built-in collections all return a shallow copy, we used the dict constructor to create a shallow copy of dict1.

The first print statement prints False since dict1 and dict2 are different objects. However, the nested components are all references to the original nested objects. Thus, the remaining print statements print True.

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