What is the best way to copy a list in Python?

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Published on 2008-10-08T20:11:22Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 11:11 UTC
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lst1 = ['one', 2, 3]

// What is the best way of the following  -- or is there another way?
lst2 = list(lst1)
lst2 = lst1[:]

import copy
lst2 = copy.copy(lst1)

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