Lambda with copy.deepcopy()

[Joshua Ginsberg]

Howdy --

I have a class that has an attribute that is a dictionary that contains
an object that has a kword argument that is a lambda. Confused yet?
Simplified example:

import copy

class Foo:
def __init__(self, fn=None):
self.fn = fn

class Bar:
d = {'foobar': Foo(fn=lambda x: x*x)}

def cp(self):
self.xerox = copy.deepcopy(s elf.d)

When I execute:

b = Bar()
b.cp()

Using Python version:

Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 5, in cp
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 179, in deepcopy
y = copier(x, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 270, in _deepcopy_dict
y[deepcopy(key, memo)] = deepcopy(value, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 179, in deepcopy
y = copier(x, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 307, in _deepcopy_inst
state = deepcopy(state, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 179, in deepcopy
y = copier(x, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 270, in _deepcopy_dict
y[deepcopy(key, memo)] = deepcopy(value, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 206, in deepcopy
y = _reconstruct(x, rv, 1, memo)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy.py", line 338, in _reconstruct
y = callable(*args)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/copy_reg.py", line 92, in __newobj__
return cls.__new__(cls , *args)
TypeError: function() takes at least 2 arguments (0 given)

I've googled for deepcopy and lambda and found somebody else asking the
same question on a LUG somewhere, but they gave no advice and nobody
else seems to have run into this. Any ideas on what the problem is/how
to get around it? Thanks!

-jag