From 6eb7383e82b564a146cd9e719d6424ec8f79c355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:16:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused (and unworking) copy method
---
src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py | 13 +------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py
index 6d89049bfb..dcb31c3ecc 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/base.py
@@ -185,17 +185,6 @@ class Metadata(object):
return result
# Old Metadata API {{{
- @staticmethod
- def copy(mi):
- ans = Metadata(mi.title, mi.authors)
- for attr in STANDARD_METADATA_FIELDS:
- if hasattr(mi, attr):
- setattr(ans, attr, copy.deepcopy(getattr(mi, attr)))
- for x in mi.user_metadata_keys:
- meta = mi.get_user_metadata(x)
- if meta is not None:
- ans.set_user_metadata(x, meta) # get... did the deep copy
-
def print_all_attributes(self):
for x in STANDARD_METADATA_FIELDS:
prints('%s:'%x, getattr(self, x, 'None'))
@@ -347,7 +336,7 @@ class Metadata(object):
ans += [(_('Rights'), unicode(self.rights))]
for i, x in enumerate(ans):
ans[i] = u'| %s | %s |
'%x
- # CUSTFIELD: What to do about custom fields
+ # TODO: NEWMETA: What to do about custom fields
return u''%u'\n'.join(ans)
def __str__(self):