[Python-Dev] PEP 567 v2

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jan 4 23:15:11 EST 2018


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, it's not *immutable* (it shouldn't support hash()), but it doesn't 
> follow the MutableMapping protocol -- it only follows the Mapping 
> protocol.

That's why I wrote "mapping" with a small "m". If there's
a better term for "collection of associations between keys
and values that can be changed somehow" then by all means
use it.

-- 
Greg


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