Alexander,

Thanks very much for the explanation.

The only link I can find regarding getattr is 
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rpc.html
. I am unfamiliar with this approach. Would someone show me how to
loop through my example using getattr/setattr please?

On Feb 14, 7:46 pm, Alexander Kojevnikov <alexan...@kojevnikov.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 15, 6:34 am, thebrianschott <schott.br...@gmail.com> wrote:> I have 
> tried this code, but the "next" copy with "joan2" does not get
> > put() into the datastore, only the original copy with "joan".  Can you
> > tell me how to do this without doing it attribute by attribute,
> > please?
>
> This line:
>
>   nextplace=place
>
> ... does not copy the entity but makes variable `nextplace` point to
> the same entity as `place`. You can copy the property values like
> this:
>
>   nextplace = Group(key_name="joan2")
>   nextplace.place = place.place
>   nextplace.zoom = place.zoom
>   nextplace.put()
>
> Alternatively, you can loop on all properties using Model.properties()
> [1] and call getattr/setattr to copy the property values.
>
> [1]http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/modelclass.htm...
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