[Tutor] Might be a silly question!

[Jeffrey Maitland]

Hello all, 

I am drawing a blank right now and can't seem to find anything on it and I 
am sure this issue has been addressed before, so here is the question. 

Can and if you can how do you set a variable as a constant? 

Example of what I mean: (this is loose and not python since variable type 
declaration is not needed in python) 

CONST int gamma = 5 

This would mean in my little mind that the variable gamma which is an 
integer of 5 can not be changed in the code and would throw an error if you 
tried. Just wondering if there is a way of doing this in Python.  This is 
just to clear this up in my mind it means nothing to my code since the way I 
write variable names any variable I want to remain unchanged I use caps to 
help distinguish easily. 

Thanks. 

Jeff 

"They say the quickest way between to 2 points is a straight line, however 
where is the fun in that?"
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