[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

Fri Aug 10 02:18:25 CEST 2007

Ron Adam wrote:
> Would some sort of an indirect reference type help. Possibly an 
> object_id_based_reference as keys instead of using or hashing the object 
> itself? This wouldn't change if the object mutates between accesses and 
> could be immutable.

But if the object did mutate, the cached re would be out
of date, and this wouldn't be noticed.
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