Object copying itself

[Jason Orendorff]

Dale Strickland-Clark writes:
> I want object references copied (shallow copy) but the lists need to
> be copied entirely (deep copy).
>
> Do I have to do this by hand or is there a neat way of doing it?

Well, depending on what you need, one rather unwholesome way might be:

class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, other):
        self.__dict__ = copy.deepcopy(other.__dict__)

    def __copy__(self):
        return self

    def __deepcopy__(self):
        return self

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