Merge pull request #57 from bastiak/master

Allows to copy dns.name.Name objects

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dns/name.py b/dns/name.py
index 293ab95..5f8f213 100644
--- a/dns/name.py
+++ b/dns/name.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import cStringIO
 import struct
 import sys
+import copy
 
 if sys.hexversion >= 0x02030000:
     import encodings.idna
@@ -149,6 +150,12 @@ class Name(object):
     def __setattr__(self, name, value):
         raise TypeError("object doesn't support attribute assignment")
 
+    def __copy__(self):
+        return Name(self.labels)
+
+    def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
+        return Name(copy.deepcopy(self.labels, memo))
+
     def is_absolute(self):
         """Is the most significant label of this name the root label?
         @rtype: bool