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A “frozen” dictionary for Python

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191 points jwilk | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 09:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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pansa2 ◴[11 Dec 25 12:45 UTC] No.46230704[source]▶
I wonder whether Raymond Hettinger has an opinion on this PEP. A long time ago, he wrote: "freezing dicts is a can of worms and not especially useful".

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/0...

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1. ndr ◴[11 Dec 25 14:59 UTC] No.46232170[source]▶
Immutability it's a joy to work with. Ask anyone who's worked with Clojure's dicts.