__slots__ and copy again: why does it work?

[fortepianissimo]

To be complete, the first code snippet, when modified as follows, works
fine in Python 2.4.2:

--- START ---
#!/usr/bin/env python

import copy

class Foo (object):
  __slots__ = ('i', )

  def __init__ (self):
    self.i = 10

class Bar (Foo):
  __slots__ = ('j', )

  def __init__ (self):
    super(Bar, self).__init__()
    self.j = 20

f1 = Foo()
f2 = copy.copy(f1)

print f2.i   # works

b1 = Bar()
b2 = copy.copy(b1)

print b2.j   # works
print b2.i   # works
--- END ---

The last line didn't work last time because b2.i was never initialized.