From c5d2d517000bf71c4afc1775c30d97c8d395e2b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:18:22 +0000 Subject: Apply the same change to classes without an __getinitargs__() method as in pickle: the new instance is created without calling __init__(). --- Lib/copy.py | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/copy.py b/Lib/copy.py index 51c375d..1fbd481 100644 --- a/Lib/copy.py +++ b/Lib/copy.py @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ any similar types. Classes can use the same interfaces to control copying that they use to control pickling: they can define methods called __getinitargs__(), -__getstate__() and __setstate__(). See the __doc__ string of module +__getstate__() and __setstate__(). See the documentation for module "pickle" for information on these methods. """ @@ -107,9 +107,10 @@ def _copy_inst(x): return x.__copy__() if hasattr(x, '__getinitargs__'): args = x.__getinitargs__() + y = apply(x.__class__, args) else: - args = () - y = apply(x.__class__, args) + y = _EmptyClass() + y.__class__ = x.__class__ if hasattr(x, '__getstate__'): state = x.__getstate__() else: @@ -219,9 +220,10 @@ def _deepcopy_inst(x, memo): args = x.__getinitargs__() _keep_alive(args, memo) args = deepcopy(args, memo) + y = apply(x.__class__, args) else: - args = () - y = apply(x.__class__, args) + y = _EmptyClass() + y.__class__ = x.__class__ memo[id(x)] = y if hasattr(x, '__getstate__'): state = x.__getstate__() @@ -240,6 +242,10 @@ del d del types +# Helper for instance creation without calling __init__ +class _EmptyClass: + pass + def _test(): l = [None, 1, 2L, 3.14, 'xyzzy', (1, 2L), [3.14, 'abc'], {'abc': 'ABC'}, (), [], {}] -- cgit v0.12