Currently, the copy() method for Context objects makes a shallow copy of the context. To get a deepcopy, you have to use copy.deepcopy(thecontext). Though, copies are usually shallow and deepcopies are deep, I'm now having misgivings about the copy method. I would think that a deep copy is almost invariably what you would want and expect, (i.e. the copy doesn't share traps and flags with the original). Do you guys think it should be left alone (shallow) or changed (made deep)? The wrinkle in all this is that internally the module makes many uses of copy and expects it to be shallow (or least, tests fail in droves when copy is made deep). So I would have to rename the current copy to _shallow_copy and replace the original with a deep version for the public API. Any thoughts? Raymond