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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):
 """ Return a new object with the same metainfo Internally, this simply copies the internal metainfo dictionary with :func:`copy.deepcopy` and gives it to the new instance. """

        from copy import deepcopy
        cp = type(self)()
        cp._metainfo = deepcopy(self._metainfo)
        return cp