On Mon, Feb 11, 2008, Greg Ewing wrote: > Aahz wrote: >> >> Let's suppose you have an object that represents an order. And let's >> suppose that this object needs to be copied to create a re-order (letting >> the customer preserve the information from the original order). > > In that case, I would give my Order class a copy() method (or > re_order() or whatever name is appropriate) that does the right > thing for orders in the context of that application. > > There are bound to be things that you *don't* want to copy from > the original order, e.g. the order ID, the date...
Certainly -- that's why __copy__() exists, right? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
