Copy with __slots__

[Griebel, Peer]

Hi,

I just discovered another problem. It seems that objects which are instances
of new style classes (derived from object) are not copied correctly. Here is
an example:


class C1(object):
    __slots__ = "s1";

class C2(C1):
    __slots__ = "s2";

class C3(C2):
    pass

o1 = C1()
o2 = C2()
o3 = C3()

print o1.__slots__	# prints s1
print o2.__slots__	# prints s2
print o3.__slots__	# prints s2

o1.s1 = 11
o2.s1 = 21
o2.s2 = 22
o3.a = 5

import copy
p2 = copy.copy(o2)
print p2.s2		# attribute s2 does not exist (has not been copied)


The last print statement fails with the an AttributeError. Since
o2.__slots__ does not know about the slots of the parent class (C1), it
would not be sufficient to simply copy all elements in o2.__slots__. All
parent classes had to be inspected also.

So how can o2 be copied efficiently?



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