I’m not sure if this is the right place to report possible bugs, so apologies in advance if this was supposed to be reported somewhere else. Robot Framework version: 4.0.2 Library: Collections Keyword: Copy Dictionary Usage: ${newDictionary}= Copy Dictionary ${myDictionary}[subDictionary1][su…

[image] IdahoDev49: value of subDictionary2 and myDictionary remains unchanged. Actual Behavior: The values of both newDictionary AND myDictionary are changed to subDictionary2. It would be nice to have some reproducible test case, so I made one for you :wink: *** Settings *** Library …

Thank you. You’re right. I should’ve included a test example. And testing your code led me to the REAL culprit, which was my variable naming convention. Copy Dictionary had nothing to do with it. The name of the new dictionary I was creating was similar to the original dictionary except it had …

Ah, so it is. My eyes missed that when I went through it the first time. Thank you for the correction. Paragraph 2 under Section 2.6.2 - Using Variables Robot Framework variables, similarly as keywords, are case-insensitive, and also spaces and underscores are ignored. However, it is recommende…

Possible bug in Copy Dictionary keyword

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HelioGuilherme66 (Hélio Guilherme) 13 May 2021 16:07 4

I am sure it is documented in the User Guide, that undercores, spaces and Case is stripped (or ignored ) on variables.

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Possible bug in Copy Dictionary keyword

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