> Original Poster > I thought I'd implement it as a subclass of collections.OrderedDict > that prohibits all modifications to the dictionary after it has > been initialized.
I thought the __new__() method was for customizing how objects where instantated. Where in __new__() you would get an object instance and then usually initialize the public data attributes in __init__(). Although I like Mark Wooding's solution as it's clean and easy to understand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
