A shallow copy constructs a new compound object and then (to the extent possible) inserts references into it to the objects found in the original. A deep copy constructs a new compound object and then, recursively, inserts copies into it of the objects found in the original.

What is shallow copy Python?

In Python, a shallow copy is a “one-level-deep” copy. The copied object contains references to the child objects of the original object. A deep copy is completely independent of the original object. It constructs a new collection object by recursively populating it with copies of the child objects.

Why do we use Deepcopy?

Deep copy is intended to copy all the elements of an object, which include directly referenced elements (of value type) and the indirectly referenced elements of a reference type that holds a reference (pointer) to a memory location that contains data rather than containing the data itself.