On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 4:06 AM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> 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

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