Copy constructors

[David Smith]

It appears that the preferred way to make a copy constructor is to
define the __copy__ method.  In the examples I have seen, __copy__ then
creates a new object in the usual way, which invokes __init__.  In a
class I have at hand, __init__ does some real work, which I want to
bypass -- I want to clone the results of that work.  I don't want to
redefine __init__'s parameter list (to permit passing only one parameter
of the same class), because it would screw up IDLE's automatic parameter
list prompting.

Is there a way for __copy__ to create a bare object of the same class,
which it can proceed to populate?

	David Smith