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# coding=UTF-8
# ex:ts=4:sw=4:et=on
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Copyright (C) 2014 by Mathijs Dumon <mathijs dot dumon at gmail dot com>
#
#  mvc is a framework derived from the original pygtkmvc framework
#  hosted at: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtkmvc/>
#
#  mvc is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
#  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
#  version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#  mvc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
#  Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
#  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
#  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
#  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
#  Boston, MA 02110, USA.
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

from copy import deepcopy

def modify(descriptor, **kwargs):
    """
        Makes a deep copy of descriptor and then applies all passed keywords.
        Can be used to modify the descriptor attributes in subclasses,
        without changing the behavior of the superclass.
    """
    new_descriptor = deepcopy(descriptor)
    for name, value in kwargs.items():
        setattr(new_descriptor, name, value)
    return new_descriptor