Hi Jack

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"Jack" == Jack Bates <jack.bates@gmail.com> writes:

Jack> i have a domish element - when i try the following,

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message = element del message['from'] element['from']

Jack> - i get a key error Jack> to avoid this key error, i think i want to copy the element, so i can Jack> drop the 'from' attribute from one copy without affecting the other? Jack> but i didn't find anything to make a copy in the domish element api Jack> how should i avoid this key error? If I'm interpreting you right, you might try from copy import deepcopy message = deepcopy(element) # etc. Not sure what this has to do with Twisted :-) Terry