Added test case for issue #25

tests/github/test_issue_0025.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from benedict import benedict
+
+import unittest
+
+
+class github_issue_0025_test_case(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    """
+    https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/python-benedict/issues/25
+
+    To run this specific test:
+    - For each method comment @unittest.skip decorator
+    - Run python -m unittest tests.github.test_issue_0025
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def load_dict():
+        yaml_str ="""
+SERVER:
+    S01:
+        alias: s01_alias
+        ssh_port: s01_port
+        host: s01_host
+        credentials:
+            username: s01_user
+            password: s01_passw
+        location:
+            building: s01_building
+            floar: s01_floar
+            room: s01_room
+        """
+        servers = benedict.from_yaml(yaml_str)
+        # print(servers.dump())
+        return dict(servers)
+
+    @unittest.skip('testing copy and pointers failure')
+    def test_copy_and_pointers_with_benedict_casting(self):
+        servers = benedict(self.load_dict())
+        s01_ptr=benedict(servers['SERVER.S01'])
+        s01_copy=benedict(servers['SERVER.S01'].copy())
+        s01_ptr['alias']='ptr_alias'
+        s01_ptr['location.building']='ptr_building'
+        s01_ptr['credentials.username']='ptr_unsername'
+        self.assertEqual(s01_ptr, s01_copy)
+
+    @unittest.skip('testing copy and pointers failure')
+    def test_copy_and_pointers_with_dict_casting(self):
+        servers = self.load_dict()
+        s01_ptr=dict(servers['SERVER']['S01'])
+        s01_copy=dict(servers['SERVER']['S01'].copy())
+        s01_ptr['alias']='ptr_alias'
+        s01_ptr['location']['building']='ptr_building'
+        s01_ptr['credentials']['username']='ptr_unsername'
+        self.assertEqual(s01_ptr, s01_copy)
+
+    @unittest.skip('testing copy and pointers failure')
+    def test_copy_and_pointers_with_dict(self):
+        servers = self.load_dict()
+        s01_ptr=servers['SERVER']['S01']
+        s01_copy=servers['SERVER']['S01'].copy()
+        s01_ptr['alias']='ptr_alias'
+        s01_ptr['location']['building']='ptr_building'
+        s01_ptr['credentials']['username']='ptr_unsername'
+        self.assertEqual(s01_ptr, s01_copy)