Copy Model Object in Django

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I ran into a situation where I wanted to created a new database record from an existing record (model object). I figured there should be a fairly simple solution. It turns out there is and I want to thank Seveas on IRC #django for pointing it out for me. This is essentially what I did:

1from copy import deepcopy
2old_obj = deepcopy(obj)
3old_obj.id = None
4old_obj.save()

Voila!