On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 09:28:55AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Anyway, it would be nice for someone to take up the mantle of getting an
> immutable Mapping into the stdlib.
Here is a "FrozenMapping" class that could be added to collections. I
have tested it ~~extensively~~ for nearly two
On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 6:30 AM Steve Dower wrote:
> >> + 1 from me -- just the other day I was wishing it was there.
> >
> > There would presumably need to be be a C API as well, and that would
> > probably expose more of the implementation unless handled carefully.
> > Without seeing an actual i
>
> All of that kind of adds up to make it a distraction that's likely worse
> than a dict subclass with __setitem__ overridden (if that's the
> behaviour you want). It's a fantastic data structure for when you need
> it, but it's one that deserves to be researched and understood before
> simply dr
On 02Apr2022 0925, Paul Moore wrote:
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 02:30, Christopher Barker wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 4:06 AM Steve Dower wrote:
The main difference is that 'immutables' offers you a stable/versioned
interface to use it, while the one that's in CPython is an internal
implementa
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 02:30, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 4:06 AM Steve Dower wrote:
>>
>> The main difference is that 'immutables' offers you a stable/versioned
>> interface to use it, while the one that's in CPython is an internal
>> implementation detail. If one day we
