On Nov 10, 4:10 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
> > Your
> > choice of containers is not based on any theoretical arguments of what each
> > type was intended to represent, but the cold hard reality of what
> > operations they support.
>
> Right. What seems missing is a "frozen list" type - the list needs to be
> frozen in order to be used as a dictionary key (or any other lookup
> structure). Fortunately, as you say, tuples already fill that role, so
> one could write
>
> frozenlist = tuple
> ...
> sequence = frozenlist(items)
> d[sequence] = d.get(sequence,0)+1
>
> to make it explicit that here, the tuple has a different role.
If list grew a frozenlist superclass (just move up all the non-
mutating methods of list) and had a new freeze method, there would be
no need to copy the sequence:
def freeze(self):
self.__class__ = frozenlist
George
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