Copying instances?

[valeatory]

I have an inventory setup in my game where the player gets items using the predetermined function self.get, that simply appends whatever you get to the list of self.inventory. The only items you can get are instances (class weapon, class armor, class boots), and instances seem to be mutable. I am using the mutable-ness of it to tell the game whether the item is being used by changing self.used to True when equipped, and False when not. All of this seems to work fine, but I do have a problem that comes up when you get multiple of the same item. if you get two practswords, say, and you equip one, it will treat it like you equipped both because it is changing the only actual practsword variable. I know for things like lists you can copy them by saying practsword[:], but I know of nothing like that for instances. What should I do?

[chronoluminaire]

Sounds like you want the Python copy module. How to use it, plus warnings about using it (basically: it probably won't play well with rollback), can be found here: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=8&t=3031

[valeatory]

Thanks! It caused some problems with the way my game was figuring out what type an item was, but now it works great! Thanks a lot!