make a truly deep copy of a pandas Series
问题 I have a pd.Series with each cell being a list. I want to make a deep copy of it, however it seems like pd.Series.copy only creates a shallow copy of the values (even though the deep arg is True be default). example import pandas as pd sr = pd.Series([list(range(3)), list(range(3))]) sr_c = sr.copy() sr[0].append(4) the copied pd.Series sr_c is being transformed to 0 [0, 1, 2, 4] 1 [0, 1, 2] I did this and it worked: from copy import deepcopy sr_c = sr_c.apply(deepcopy) however this seems