From ffdde9e959513e72a7ac649e9c2fc70566778453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:49:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Properly document copy and deepcopy as functions.

---
 Doc/library/copy.rst | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/copy.rst b/Doc/library/copy.rst
index 89b668d5f9f..b3ce51f57e4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/copy.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/copy.rst
@@ -1,25 +1,28 @@
-
 :mod:`copy` --- Shallow and deep copy operations
 ================================================
 
 .. module:: copy
    :synopsis: Shallow and deep copy operations.
 
-
-.. index::
-   single: copy() (in copy)
-   single: deepcopy() (in copy)
-
 This module provides generic (shallow and deep) copying operations.
 
-Interface summary::
 
-   import copy
+Interface summary:
 
-   x = copy.copy(y)        # make a shallow copy of y
-   x = copy.deepcopy(y)    # make a deep copy of y
+.. function:: copy(x)
+
+   Return a shallow copy of *x*.
+
+
+.. function:: deepcopy(x)
+
+   Return a deep copy of *x*.
+
+
+.. exception:: error
+
+   Raised for module specific errors.
 
-For module specific errors, :exc:`copy.error` is raised.
 
 The difference between shallow and deep copying is only relevant for compound
 objects (objects that contain other objects, like lists or class instances):