On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:23:19 -0600, Evan Driscoll wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying for a few days (only a little bit at a time) to come up > with a way of implementing a frozendict that doesn't suck. I'm gradually > converging to a solution, but I can't help but think that there's some > subtlety that I'm probably missing which is why it's not already > provided. > > Does anyone know why Python doesn't already come with a frozendict, or > why there seem to only be a couple attempts to write one?
Because there is no way to implement one that doesn't suck? Because it's a solution in search of a problem? <shrug> Actually, that's unfair. A write-once dict would be awesome for providing read-only constants, if only there were some way to set a namespace to using non-builtin dicts. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
