[Tutor] Re: Independent class instances

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:54:42AM -0500, Runsun Pan wrote:
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| Hi all,
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| I have some class, say, myFont. I'm trying to make different
| instances outta it:
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| f1 =3D myFont()
| f1.color =3D 'red'

| f2 =3D f1

Here you duplicate the _reference_.  Now the names 'f1' and 'f2' refer
to the exact same object in memory.

| f2.color =3D 'black'

| When I assign 'black' to f2.color, f1.color changed to 'black' too.

See above for the reason.

| This is not what I want.

| Is there anyway to 'copy' entire content of a class to a new=20
| instance ?

import copy
f2 =3D copy.deepcopy( f1 )

-D

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All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
        Proverbs 16:2
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