Issue #20289: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and

supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes
keyword-only arguments.

Lib/copy.py

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def copy(x):
     else:
         reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None)
         if reductor:
-            rv = reductor(2)
+            rv = reductor(4)
         else:
             reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce__", None)
             if reductor:
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ def deepcopy(x, memo=None, _nil=[]):
                 else:
                     reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None)
                     if reductor:
-                        rv = reductor(2)
+                        rv = reductor(4)
                     else:
                         reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce__", None)
                         if reductor:

Lib/test/test_copy.py

@@ -146,6 +146,40 @@ class TestCopy(unittest.TestCase):
         x = C(42)
         self.assertEqual(copy.copy(x), x)
 
+    def test_copy_inst_getnewargs(self):
+        class C(int):
+            def __new__(cls, foo):
+                self = int.__new__(cls)
+                self.foo = foo
+                return self
+            def __getnewargs__(self):
+                return self.foo,
+            def __eq__(self, other):
+                return self.foo == other.foo
+        x = C(42)
+        y = copy.copy(x)
+        self.assertIsInstance(y, C)
+        self.assertEqual(y, x)
+        self.assertIsNot(y, x)
+        self.assertEqual(y.foo, x.foo)
+
+    def test_copy_inst_getnewargs_ex(self):
+        class C(int):
+            def __new__(cls, *, foo):
+                self = int.__new__(cls)
+                self.foo = foo
+                return self
+            def __getnewargs_ex__(self):
+                return (), {'foo': self.foo}
+            def __eq__(self, other):
+                return self.foo == other.foo
+        x = C(foo=42)
+        y = copy.copy(x)
+        self.assertIsInstance(y, C)
+        self.assertEqual(y, x)
+        self.assertIsNot(y, x)
+        self.assertEqual(y.foo, x.foo)
+
     def test_copy_inst_getstate(self):
         class C:
             def __init__(self, foo):
@@ -405,6 +439,42 @@ class TestCopy(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIsNot(y, x)
         self.assertIsNot(y.foo, x.foo)
 
+    def test_deepcopy_inst_getnewargs(self):
+        class C(int):
+            def __new__(cls, foo):
+                self = int.__new__(cls)
+                self.foo = foo
+                return self
+            def __getnewargs__(self):
+                return self.foo,
+            def __eq__(self, other):
+                return self.foo == other.foo
+        x = C([42])
+        y = copy.deepcopy(x)
+        self.assertIsInstance(y, C)
+        self.assertEqual(y, x)
+        self.assertIsNot(y, x)
+        self.assertEqual(y.foo, x.foo)
+        self.assertIsNot(y.foo, x.foo)
+
+    def test_deepcopy_inst_getnewargs_ex(self):
+        class C(int):
+            def __new__(cls, *, foo):
+                self = int.__new__(cls)
+                self.foo = foo
+                return self
+            def __getnewargs_ex__(self):
+                return (), {'foo': self.foo}
+            def __eq__(self, other):
+                return self.foo == other.foo
+        x = C(foo=[42])
+        y = copy.deepcopy(x)
+        self.assertIsInstance(y, C)
+        self.assertEqual(y, x)
+        self.assertIsNot(y, x)
+        self.assertEqual(y.foo, x.foo)
+        self.assertIsNot(y.foo, x.foo)
+
     def test_deepcopy_inst_getstate(self):
         class C:
             def __init__(self, foo):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #20289: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and
+  supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes
+  keyword-only arguments.
+
 - Issue #23491: Added a zipapp module to support creating executable zip
   file archives of Python code. Registered ".pyz" and ".pyzw" extensions
   on Windows for these archives (PEP 441).