From a330a022d4c32b9096c4b6d7066a936d6eef59a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonard Lausen <lausen@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:31:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix mx.symbol.numpy._Symbol.__deepcopy__ logic error (#18686)

* Fix mx.symbol.numpy._Symbol.__deepcopy__ logic error

Performed shallow copy instead of deep copy

* Test

* Fix test
---
 tests/python/unittest/test_symbol.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_symbol.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_symbol.py
index 1c84af0c668e..910b6ca15499 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_symbol.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_symbol.py
@@ -479,3 +479,13 @@ def test_infershape_happens_for_all_ops_in_graph():
 
     assert False
 
+def test_symbol_copy():
+    a = mx.sym.Variable('a')
+    b = copy.copy(a)
+    b._set_attr(name='b')
+    assert a.name == 'a' and b.name == 'b'
+
+    a = mx.sym.Variable('a').as_np_ndarray()
+    b = copy.copy(a)
+    b._set_attr(name='b')
+    assert a.name == 'a' and b.name == 'b'