How to copy files?

shutil has many methods you can use. One of which is: Copy the contents of the file named src to a file named dst. Both src and dst need to be the entire filename of the files, including path. The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an IOError exception will be raised. If dst already exists, it will be replaced. Special files such as character or block … Read more

How to deep copy a list?

E0_copy is not a deep copy. You don’t make a deep copy using list(). (Both list(…) and testList[:] are shallow copies.) You use copy.deepcopy(…) for deep copying a list. See the following snippet – Now see the deepcopy operation

Fastest way to duplicate an array in JavaScript – slice vs. ‘for’ loop

There are at least 6 (!) ways to clone an array: loop slice Array.from() concat spread operator (FASTEST) map A.map(function(e){return e;}); There has been a huuuge BENCHMARKS thread, providing following information: for blink browsers slice() is the fastest method, concat() is a bit slower, and while loop is 2.4x slower. for other browsers while loop is the fastest method, since those browsers don’t have internal optimizations for slice and concat. This remains … Read more

How do I copy an object in Java?

Create a copy constructor: Every object has also a clone method which can be used to copy the object, but don’t use it. It’s way too easy to create a class and do improper clone method. If you are going to do that, read at least what Joshua Bloch has to say about it in Effective … Read more