Method returning new instance of class?

[Arthur]

"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
news:7xwtzaw8rz.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com...
> "Arthur" <ajsiegel at optonline.com> writes:
> > The way I am currently conceptualizing a solution, what I need is a
method
> > of the class that returns a new instance of the class.
>
>     class foo:
>       def bar(self):
>          return foo()
>
> What's the problem?

As I responded to Martin, what I am looking for - though I didn't describe
it well - is a copy of the original instance (with, for example, same
version of attributes generated with reference to its original arguments).

And I am trying to work around something - or diagnose something I am
running into - using copy.deepcopy.

Is this the time to play with __dict__?

Art