Thanks for the reply.

On Dec 26, 2010, at 03:17 , Volker Braun wrote:

> Python has no "const". You can always manually change the innards of your 
> class. The set_immutable() is just implemented by hand.

Tuples are "really" immutable, correct?  Is this possible because the tuple is 
an internal data type?

> One could override __setattr__() to catch assignments to existing 
> attributes, but I think that is not done anywhere in Sage.

Are 'attributes' the same as (or do they include) instance variables?

Thanks for the clarification.

Justin

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