Copy constructors
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 16:14:06 EDT 2001
"David Smith" <drs at labs.agilent.com> wrote in message
news:3B72DCBA.C99465BC at labs.agilent.com...
...
> class I have at hand, __init__ does some real work, which I want to
> bypass -- I want to clone the results of that work. I don't want to
...
> Is there a way for __copy__ to create a bare object of the same class,
> which it can proceed to populate?
Piece of cake:
class Fleep:
def __init__(self, x, y, z):
print 'lots',x,'of',y,'work',z
def __copy__(self):
class Temp: pass
newbie = Temp()
newbie.__class__=self.__class__
print "very little work"
Alex
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