Easiest way to copy all fields from one dataclass instance to another?

Question

Let\'s assume you have defined a Python dataclass:

@dataclass
class Marker:
    a: float
    b: float = 1.0
         


        

Answer 1

The dataclasses.replace function returns a new copy of the object. Without passing in any changes, it will return a copy with no modification:

>>> import dataclasses
>>> @dataclasses.dataclass
... class Dummy:
...     foo: int
...     bar: int
... 
>>> dummy = Dummy(1, 2)
>>> dummy_copy = dataclasses.replace(dummy)
>>> dummy_copy.foo = 5
>>> dummy
Dummy(foo=1, bar=2)
>>> dummy_copy
Dummy(foo=5, bar=2)

Note that this is a shallow copy.