On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.r...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > Lets also not forget that knowing an object is immutable lets you do a > lot of optimizations; it can be inlined, it is safe to convert to a > contiguous block of memory and stuff in cache, etc. If you know the > input to a function is guaranteed to be frozen you can just go crazy. > Being able to freeze(anyobject) seems like a pretty clear win. > Whether or not it is pythonic is debatable. I'd argue if the meaning > of pythonic in some context is limiting, we should consider updating > the term rather than being dogmatic.
It's been proposed previously and rejected: PEP 351 -- The freeze protocol http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0351/ Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
