Object copying itself

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

It occurs to me that I could use copy.copy to do most of the work and
patch up the bits it missed afterwards

What's the best approach?

class data:
    def __init__(self, defaults=None):
        if defaults:
            self.__dict__ = copy.copy(defaults.__dict__)

Is that safe?

or what about:
            self = copy.copy(defaults)

Any other ideas?

Cheers.
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd