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Hey guys, what is the best way to copy a flow? Just use .copy() or deepcopy?

From experience I think copy works already. But I think I don’t have a better answer for now than “try copy and if it doesn’t work, deepcopy” lol.

I asking because i have 2 flows and in one of them i'm just replacing the name

if one flow run first the name stick in the next call to `extract_flow_from_file`

i get the same object if i extract the flow that i change the name

```from prefect import Flow, task
from copy import copy

@task
def abc():
    return 1

with Flow("test") as flow:
    abc()

flow2 = copy(flow)
flow2.name = "test2"
print(flow.name)```