[Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-416670 ] MatchObjects not deepcopy()able

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> wrote:

> time to add a __clone__ slot?

It's called __setstate__ and __getstate__, I think?
Don't these have an appropriate C-level slots?

>     # XXX need to support copy_reg here too...

I think it's talking about having copy be the same (but without the
middle man) as Unpickle.loads(Pickle.dumps(o)) (which is a perfect
copy.deepcopy, if a bit wasteful.

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