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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def copy(self, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Copy the request and environment object. This only does a shallow copy, except of wsgi.input """

        self.make_body_seekable()
        env = self.environ.copy()
        new_req = self.__class__(env, *args, **kwargs)
        new_req.copy_body()
        new_req.identity = self.identity
        return new_req