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When copy.copy is used on an object whose __getstate__ returns 0, it can produce a corrupt copy of an object:
>>> import copy
>>> class Foo(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.value = 0
... def __getstate__(self):
... return self.value
... def __setstate__(self, v):
... self.value = v
... 
>>> one = Foo()
>>> two = copy.copy(one)
>>> two.value
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute 'value'
Pickling/unpickling works fine for this object, so this appears to be a bug in copy._reconstruct.
This is not a contrived example, BTrees.Length.Length from ZODB uses such a __getstate__.