skbio.alignment.TabularMSA.__copy__

TabularMSA.__copy__()

Return a shallow copy of this MSA.

State: Experimental as of 0.4.1.

Returns

Shallow copy of this MSA. Sequence objects will be shallow-copied.

Return type

TabularMSA

See also

__deepcopy__()

Examples

>>> import copy
>>> from skbio import DNA, TabularMSA
>>> msa = TabularMSA([DNA('ACG'), DNA('AC-')])
>>> msa_copy = copy.copy(msa)
>>> msa_copy == msa
True
>>> msa_copy is msa
False