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→‎[[Python]]: Corrected "actual copy" code which doesn't, you know, actually copy.
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dst = src
dst = src


There's no way to actually copy a string in Python; all of the standard methods (the unconstrained index [:], copy.copy, copy.deepcopy) all return the same string object, since they're immutable.
To actually copy the string:
dst = src[:]


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