The future of Python immutability

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Sep 4 11:04:25 EDT 2009


John Nagle wrote:
> ... Suppose, for discussion purposes, we had general "immutable objects".
> Objects inherited from "immutableobject" instead of "object" would be
> unchangeable once "__init__" had returned.  Where does this take us?

Traditionally in Python we make that, "once __new__ had returned."

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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