On 11/21/18 11:45 AM, Iwo Herka wrote:
Hello,
Let's say I want to implement immutability for user-defined class.
More precisely, a class that can be modified only in its (or its
super-class') __init__ method. My initial idea was to do it the
following fashion:
def __setattr__(self, *args, **kwargs):
if sys._getframe(1).f_code.co_name == '__init__':
return super().__setattr__(*args, **kwargs)
raise AttributeError()
What do you think of this approach? Is there a better one?
Thanks.
That depends on your definition of immutability.
If an instance of your class contains a list, and you change one
of the elements of that list, then the instance's __setattr__
never comes into play:
x = AllegedlyImmutableObject(list('a', 'b', 'c'))
x.some_list[4] = 0
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