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Author thatiparthy
Recipients eli.bendersky, gphemsley, mdk, scoder, thatiparthy
Date 2017-12-28.07:13:25
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Renaming the method `copy()` to `__copy__` breaks the API. I would rather have an alias for `__copy__`. 

I agree that it is not documented, but some users tend to assume public methods are documented and use them. 

So i think it is better to not to break their code.
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