How to make an immutable instance

[Aahz]

In article <2jem4iF10udstU1 at uni-berlin.de>,
Leif K-Brooks  <eurleif at ecritters.biz> wrote:
>Batista, Facundo wrote:
>>
>> So, if you use this "immutable" class in a dict, and then you (on purpose)
>> modify it, you'll have different hashes.
>> 
>> Said that, how safer is this approach? Is there a better way?
>
>  [...]
>
>But note that you can still use object.__setattr__ directly to get 
>around it. I don't think there's a way to get true immutability in pure 
>Python.

Correct.  Remember that Python is a language for consenting adults; the
only way to guarantee object immutability is to create a type in C.
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