On 15/08/12 04:25, Matt Gregory wrote:
Thanks to you both for really helpful advice. A quick follow-up question -
would you want to create a deepcopy of obj1 in the above example if your obj1
contained other objects?
Only the person making the copy can answer that question, but in general,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Matt Gregory
wrote:
>
> Thanks to you both for really helpful advice. A quick follow-up question -
> would you want to create a deepcopy of obj1 in the above example if your
> obj1 contained other objects? I think that Steven's class method gets
> around this?
C
On 8/14/2012 5:28 AM, eryksun wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM, eryksun wrote:
Right, I overlooked classes with __slots__ and that override __new__
and other special methods. copy() is the better and more customizable
solution.
If copying is good enough, then this should work:
from co
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM, eryksun wrote:
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> Right, I overlooked classes with __slots__ and that override __new__
> and other special methods. copy() is the better and more customizable
> solution.
If copying is good enough, then this should work:
from copy import copy
def copy_with_over
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> def new_with_overrides(obj1, **kwds):
>> obj2 = obj1.__new__(obj1.__class__)
>> obj2.__dict__.update(obj1.__dict__)
>> for k, v in kwds.items():
>> if k in obj2.__dict__:
>> obj2.__dict__[k] = v
>>
On 14/08/12 07:16, eryksun wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Gregory, Matthew
wrote:
I'm trying to create a new instance from an existing instance
def new_with_overrides(s1, **kwargs):
new_params = {'a': s1.a, 'b': s1.b}
for (k, v) in kwargs.iteritems():
if k in ne
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Gregory, Matthew
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a new instance from an existing instance
> def new_with_overrides(s1, **kwargs):
> new_params = {'a': s1.a, 'b': s1.b}
> for (k, v) in kwargs.iteritems():
> if k in new_params:
> new_para
