How would I duplicate QGraphicsItem's in one function?

Question

How would I duplicate selected items on the scene (self.canvas)?

def use_duplicate(self):
    self.label_btn.setChecked(False)
    self.path_btn.setChecked(False)

    items = self.canvas.selectedItems()
    self.duplicate_stack.append(items)

    for item in items:
        try:
            items = self.duplicate_stack.pop()

            print(self.duplicate_stack)

            self.canvas.addItem(items)

        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

I tried using a list and then grabbing items from the list and adding them to my scene, but this doesn't work. I am curious why there isn't a .clone() method or something along those lines.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I solved this by copying an item's attributes and creating a new version of itself (QGraphicsTextItem for example):

    def duplicate(self):
        item = CustomTextItem()
        item.setFont(self.font())
        item.setDefaultTextColor(self.defaultTextColor())
        item.setPlainText(self.toPlainText())
        item.setPos(self.pos())
        item.setScale(self.scale())
        item.setRotation(self.rotation())
        item.setZValue(self.zValue())
        item.setTransform(self.transform())
        item.setTransformOriginPoint(self.transformOriginPoint())

        item.setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsSelectable)
        item.setFlag(QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable)
        item.setToolTip('Text')

        self.scene().addItem(item)

        return item