def test_copying(self): # Check that ordered dicts are copyable, deepcopyable, picklable, # and have a repr/eval round-trip pairs = [('c', 1), ('b', 2), ('a', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 5), ('f', 6)] od = OrderedDict(pairs) update_test = OrderedDict() update_test.update(od) for i, dup in enumerate([ od.copy(), copy.copy(od), copy.deepcopy(od), pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(od, 0)), pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(od, 1)), pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(od, 2)), pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(od, -1)), eval(repr(od)), update_test, OrderedDict(od), ]): self.assert_(dup is not od) self.assertEquals(dup, od) self.assertEquals(list(dup.items()), list(od.items())) self.assertEquals(len(dup), len(od)) self.assertEquals(type(dup), type(od))