On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 4:06 AM Steve Dower <[email protected]> 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 find a better design, we can just > switch to it, while 'immutables' probably can't. If we've exposed as a > public interface in the core runtime, it's much more complicated. > I don't understand the issue here: If we expose a "frozendict" as built in python object then only the API of that object needs to remain stable, not the implementation. And it seems that's an API that is already clearly defined. + 1 from me -- just the other day I was wishing it was there. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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