On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Matt Gregory <matt.greg...@oregonstate.edu> wrote: > > Thanks to you both for really helpful advice. A quick follow-up question - > would you want to create a deepcopy of obj1 in the above example if your > obj1 contained other objects? I think that Steven's class method gets > around this?
Chances are you either want a shallow copy or to use a special constructor as Steven wrote. For example, consider an object with a file attribute based on a filename argument. Say for example it's for an MP3 file and the object reads in the ID3 tags in __init__. If you want a new instance based on the same arguments, except for a different MP3 file, then you don't want a copy or a deepcopy. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
