I have a simple type derived from bytes... class atom(bytes): pass
... that I cannot deepcopy(). The session below demonstrates how deepcopy() of "bytes" works fine, but deepcopy() of "atom" does not. What's going wrong? Thanks, Dan. Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, Mar 21 2010, 00:41:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import copy >>> class atom(bytes): ... pass ... >>> copy.deepcopy(b'abc') b'abc' >>> copy.deepcopy(atom(b'abc')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wing IDE 3.2\src\debug\tserver \_sandbox.py", line 1, in <module> # Used internally for debug sandbox under external interpreter File "C:\Python31\Lib\copy.py", line 173, in deepcopy y = _reconstruct(x, rv, 1, memo) File "C:\Python31\Lib\copy.py", line 280, in _reconstruct y = callable(*args) File "C:\Python31\Lib\copyreg.py", line 88, in __newobj__ return cls.__new__(cls, *args) builtins.TypeError: string argument without an encoding >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list