On 29/11/2017 17:30, Asen Bozhilov wrote:
This is my first post here. I have strong experience with JavaScript
and I'm lucky that I could move forward to Python.
What I miss in Python are immutable dictionaries. They are especially
useful for configurations and call functions which expect dictionary
as argument. In my opinion they would let a place for underlying
optimizations.
I'd like to propose also literaling syntax for immutable dictionaries.
immutable_dict = (
'key1' : 'value1',
'key2' : 'value2'
)
This syntax is not ambiguous with expression statements and tuple
literals, but it requires a bit lookahed during the parsing.
This is sort of a subset of an idea I once posted on Python-Ideas:
Dictionaries, sets and lists (etc. ?) could have a mutable flag, and
once it was set to False you could neither change it back nor change the
object. (OK there might be some backdoor hacks, this is Python.) This
would avoid having to explain to beginners "Why does Python have lists
and tuples?" because instead of a tuple, all you need is an immutable
list. (Or if you prefer, instead of a list, all you need is a mutable
tuple.)
Rob Cliffe
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