import types


def _copy_fn(fn):
  """Create a deep copy of fn.

  Args:
    fn: a callable

  Returns:
    A `FunctionType`: a deep copy of fn.

  Raises:
    TypeError: if `fn` is not a callable.
  """
  if not callable(fn):
    raise TypeError("fn is not callable: %s" % fn)
  # The blessed way to copy a function. copy.deepcopy fails to create a
  # non-reference copy. Since:
  #   types.FunctionType == type(lambda: None),
  # and the docstring for the function type states:
  #
  #   function(code, globals[, name[, argdefs[, closure]]])
  #
  #   Create a function object from a code object and a dictionary.
  #   ...
  #
  # Here we can use this to create a new function with the old function's
  # code, globals, closure, etc.
  return types.FunctionType(
      code=fn.__code__, globals=fn.__globals__,
      name=fn.__name__, argdefs=fn.__defaults__,
      closure=fn.__closure__)