Which sentence is false?

The correct answer is A. It takes less time to make a deep copy than a shallow copy of an object. Making a deep copy takes more time than a shallow copy because it recursively copies all nested objects, whereas a shallow copy only copies the top-level object.

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AIt takes less time to make a deep copy than a shallow copy of an object
BThe [:] operator cannot be applied to dictionaries.
CThe [:] operator makes a shallow copy of every list or tuple-type object.
DThe copy() method from the copy module makes a shallow copy of every object.

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A
78% (25)
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6% (2)
C
3% (1)
D
13% (4)

Explanation

Making a deep copy takes more time than a shallow copy because it recursively copies all nested objects, whereas a shallow copy only copies the top-level object.

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#deep copy#shallow copy#copy module#slice operator

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