Const in python?

[Bernt Ribbum]

Alex Martelli has a pretty neat solution to this in the Python Cookbook.
Look at

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65207

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"Anand" <anand at calbay.com> wrote in message
news:c6303995.0303241023.4d106ab6 at posting.google.com...
> Wouldn't it be a nice idea to have constants in Python? I think when
> programmers intend some of the variables to be const, the behavior
> shouldn't be allowed to be altered. It would be nice to declare
> 'maxint' in sys to be a const rather than allowing programmers to
> change the value and cause the program to fail as a result of this
> change.
>
> Anand.
> anand at calbay.com (Anand) wrote in message
news:<c6303995.0303232258.7e77682 at posting.google.com>...
> > Python 2.3a2 (#39, Feb 19 2003, 17:58:58) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
> > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
> > >>> True
> >  True
> > >>> False
> >  False
> > >>> True = False
> > >>> True
> >  False
> > >>> False
> >  False
> > >>>
> >
> > has anyone tried this before?
> >
> > Anand