deepcopy_minimal() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the deepcopy_minimal() function in _utils.py from the anthropic-sdk-python codebase.

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Dependency Diagram

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Source Code

src/anthropic/_utils/_utils.py lines 179–191

def deepcopy_minimal(item: _T) -> _T:
    """Minimal reimplementation of copy.deepcopy() that will only copy certain object types:

    - mappings, e.g. `dict`
    - list

    This is done for performance reasons.
    """
    if is_mapping(item):
        return cast(_T, {k: deepcopy_minimal(v) for k, v in item.items()})
    if is_list(item):
        return cast(_T, [deepcopy_minimal(entry) for entry in item])
    return item