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You can use the copy module to copy objects in Python. Customized coping behavior can be achived by overriding the methods __copy__ (for shallow copy) and __deepcopy__ (for deep copy).

References

https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html#copy.deepcopy

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4794244/how-can-i-create-a-copy-of-an-object-in-python