How to copy a dictionary and only edit the copy

Question

Can someone please explain this to me? This doesn\'t make any sense to me.

I copy a dictionary into another and edit the second and both are changed. Why is this hap

Answer 1

You can use directly:

dict2 = eval(repr(dict1))

where object dict2 is an independent copy of dict1, so you can modify dict2 without affecting dict1.

This works for any kind of object.