Here I found something on __deepcopy__ http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/c34431c5fd3c223b/427866340239edd7?q=__deepcopy__+example&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D__deepcopy__+example+%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#427866340239edd7
if applied on your script it gives something like: -import copy -class DeviceManager(object): - def __init__(self,devFile): - DevFile = open(devFile) - devList = [Device(line) for line in DevFile] - #etc, etc... - - def __deepcopy__(self, memo): - x = DeviceManager.__new__(DeviceManager) - memo[id(self)] = x - for n, v in self.__dict__.iteritems(): - setattr(x, n, copy.deepcopy(v, memo)) - return x - -class Device(object): - def __init__(self,line): - self.copies = [] - #do something with line here - - def __deepcopy__(self, memo): - x = Device.__new__(Device) - memo[id(self)] = x - for n, v in self.__dict__.iteritems(): - setattr(x, n, copy.deepcopy(v, memo)) - return x - -DevMan1 = DeviceManager(r'c:\autoexec.bat') -DevMan2 = copy.deepcopy(DevMan1) - -print DevMan1 is DevMan2 it prints False, so the deepcopy seems to work -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
