New inited instance of class?

[Samuel Kleiner]

Is there a builtin way of making making another instance of your own
class? I really expected type(self)(*args, **keywords) to work this way.
Currently i'm doing this:

def new(self,*args,**keywords):
        from new import instance
        s=instance(self.__class__)
        if hasattr(D(),'__init__'):
            s.__init__(*args,**keywords)
        return s

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