How to make an immutable instance

[Michael Hudson]

"Batista, Facundo" <FBatista at uniFON.com.ar> writes:

> I'm working on Decimal, and one of the PEP requests is Decimal to be
> immutable.

[...]

> 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?

I'd say it's safe enough.  It's going to be impossible to guard
against all malicious code, so you should aim to prevent accidents.

Cheers,
mwh

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