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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2023-09-06 20:55:42 (GMT)
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gh-108751: Add copy.replace() function (GH-108752)
It creates a modified copy of an object by calling the object's __replace__() method. It is a generalization of dataclasses.replace(), named tuple's _replace() method and replace() methods in various classes, and supports all these stdlib classes.
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+Add :func:`copy.replace` function which allows to create a modified copy of
+an object. It supports named tuples, dataclasses, and many other objects.