copy.deepcopy() doesn't (for class objects): any thoughts?

[bartonc]

I was playing around with the Simple Metaclassing thread and found something odd:[CODE=python]
>>> class aClass:
... classVar1 = 'hello'
... def __init__(self, arg1):
... self.instVar1 = arg1
...
>>> anInstance = aClass('world')
>>> import copy
>>> bClass = copy.deepcopy(a nInstance.__cla ss__)
>>> bClass
<class __builtin__.aCl ass at 0x02FA7240>
>>> aClass
<class __builtin__.aCl ass at 0x02FA7240>
>>> bClass = copy.deepcopy(a Class)
>>> bClass
<class __builtin__.aCl ass at 0x02FA7240>[/CODE]