Copying Gerber data to reuse it

[opiopan]

Copying Gerber data to reuse it

[opiopan]

Thank you for using this library and your comment.
Unfortunately, There is no way to deprecate gerber object that can be merged individually at this moment.
I agree with you, parsing a gerber file should be only once each file.
I try to modify code.

Please wait a while until this modification is done.

[BAndiT1983]

Back to this topic after a while, as we're creating new panels and loading takes a lot of time, but with following workaround it seems to allow to clone the data:

def clone_gerber_file(file):
    return GerberFile(copy.deepcopy(file.statements), copy.deepcopy(file.settings),
                      copy.deepcopy(file.primitives), file.apertures)

Note: Looks like apertures are preventing deep copy on the object itself -> TypeError: cannot pickle 'dict_values' object

Tests still ongoing, so no warranty given and possible side-effects unknown yet.