Copy with __slots__...will it ever work?

[Tim Peters]

[Andrew Sterian]
> I've run up against the problem of not being able to call copy.copy()
> on a new-style class that defines __slots__.

If you can, try current CVS Python.  Guido reworked a lot of this code after
the 2.3a2 release, as part of our introduction of a new pickle protocol.
New-style classes that define __slots__ can be pickled in current CVS
Python, and copy.copy() may have inherited relevant new abilities too.
> ...
> * Will copy.copy() ever work with __slots__? Is it in the pipe for a
> future version?
>
> * If not, why not? Is there a good technical reason? or just not
> enough demand?

Nobody who knows has time to write about this stuff.  If you can't try it
yourself, please post specific examples you care about, and I'm sure someone
else <wink> will try them and report back.

if-it-were-obvious-you-wouldn't-have-asked-ly y'rs  - tim