[Python-Dev] RE: cloning iterators again
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Tue Oct 28 10:33:34 EST 2003
I've lost context for the following thread. What is this about? I
can answer one technical question regardless, but I have no idea what
I'm promoting here. :-)
> Hello Alex,
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:09:03PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Cool! Why don't you try copy.copy on types you don't automatically
> > recognize and know how to deal with, BTW? That might make this
> > cool piece of code general enough that Guido might perhaps allow
> > generator-produced iterators to grow it as their __copy__ method...
>
> I will try. Note that only __deepcopy__ makes sense, as far as I can tell,
> because there is too much state that really needs to be copied and not shared
> in a generator (in particular, the sequence iterators from 'for' loops).
>
> I'm not sure about how deep-copying should be defined for built-in
> types. Should a built-in __deepcopy__ method try to import and call
> copy.deepcopy() on the sub-items? This doesn't seem to be right.
Almost -- you have to pass the memo argument that your __deepcopy__
received as the second argument to the recursive deepcopy() calls, to
avoid looping on cycles.
> A bientot,
>
> Armin.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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