[Python-Dev] implementation of copy standard lib

[Michael Hudson]

Simon Brunning <simon.brunning at gmail.com> writes:

> I think that copy is very rarely used. I don't think I've ever imported it.
>
> Or is it just me?

Not really.  I've used it once that I can recall, to copy a kind of
generic "default value", something like:

def value(self, v, default):
    if hasattr(source, v): return getattr(source, v)
    else: return copy.copy(default)

(except not quite, there would probably be better ways to write
exactly that).

Cheers,
mwh

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