[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 7 10:47:20 CEST 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Now if you say that the dbm files are dicts conceptually,

I wouldn't say they're dicts, rather they're mappings.
Restriction of keys to immutable values is a peculiarity
of dicts, not a required feature of mappings in general.

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Greg



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