Defining/declaring constants in Python

[Michael Hudson]

Christopher Koppler <klapotec at chello.at> writes:

> If you really, really, REALLY want a varia^Wconstant that cannot be
> changed, no matter how hard you try, in Python, have a look at this:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65207

Of course, it's still possbile to change the values of these
'constants', you just have to muck about quite a bit to manage it.

Making something really, truly, constant in Python is probably
impossible (and certainly hard enough to be a silly thing to do in
real code).

Cheers,
mwh

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