Dirty fix for error '_object_has_no_attribute_'getSlave' in EtherCAT extension

traceback:
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/IDEFrame.py", line 1433, in OnPouSelectedChanged
window.RefreshView()
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/ConfigEditor.py", line 837, in RefreshView
self.RefreshProcessVariables()
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/ConfigEditor.py", line 886, in RefreshProcessVariables
slaves = self.Controler.GetSlaves(**self.CurrentNodesFilter)
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/EthercatMaster.py", line 341, in GetSlaves
for slave in self.Config.getConfig().getSlave():
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>:_'lxml.etree._Element'_object_has_no_attribute_'getSlave'

Steps to reproduce problem:

- Add new EtherCAT master
- Add new EthercatNode to the master
- double click on


this is looks like dirty hack to fix strange problem with initial[0]
changing its type after returning from _init_ method to lxml.etree._Element
As a result all methods generated by class factory are lost.

For example, in function initMethod initial[0].__class__ points to
xmlclass.xmlclass.Config. After map(self.append, initial)
self.Config.__class__ is 'xmlclass.xmlclass.Config' as well.
But after returning from initMethod (_init) in CreateElement
self.Config.__class__ has changed to lxml.etree._Element.


I've noticed similar behavior if copy/deepcopy is used for any child
of etree.ElementBase. See simple example below.
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#!/usr/bin/python

from __future__ import print_function
from lxml import etree
import copy

class DefaultElementClass(etree.ElementBase):
def getLocalTag(self):
return etree.QName(self.tag).localname


def printInformation(x):
print(x, x.__class__, "getLocalTag" in dir(x))


a = DefaultElementClass()
printInformation(a)

#
printInformation(copy.copy(a))
printInformation(copy.deepcopy(a))
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Beremiz installation 

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Download installer, install. 

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Pre-requisites::

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Get Source Code::

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    hg clone http://dev.automforge.net/plcopeneditor

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    hg clone http://dev.automforge.net/matiec

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Build MatIEC compiler::

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