[Python-3000] Nix dict.copy()

[Greg Ewing]

Aahz wrote:

> Let's suppose you have an object that represents an order.  And let's
> suppose that this object needs to be copied to create a re-order (letting
> the customer preserve the information from the original order).

In that case, I would give my Order class a copy() method (or
re_order() or whatever name is appropriate) that does the right
thing for orders in the context of that application.

There are bound to be things that you *don't* want to copy from
the original order, e.g. the order ID, the date...

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