[Python-ideas] Support other dict types for type.__dict__

[David Townshend]

My point exactly!
On Feb 26, 2012 6:51 PM, "Simon Sapin" <simon.sapin at kozea.fr> wrote:

> Le 26/02/2012 14:56, Victor Stinner a écrit :
>
>> type.__setattr__(Three, 'value', 4) changes the value.
>>
>
> Then there is the question of how much craziness you want to protect from.
> Nothing is ever truly private or immutable in CPython, given enough
> motivation and ctypes.
>
> See for example Armin Ronacher’s "Bad Ideas" presentation, especially the
> "Interpreter Warfare" part near the end:
>
> https://ep2012.europython.eu/**media/conference/slides/5-**
> years-of-bad-ideas.pdf<https://ep2012.europython.eu/media/conference/slides/5-years-of-bad-ideas.pdf>
>
> I think that the code patching tracebacks is in production in Jinja2. I’m
> sure frozensets could be modified in a similar way.
>
> The point is: immutable data types protect against mistakes more than
> someone truly determined to break the rules. With that in mind, I think
> that having to go through __setattr__ is good enough to make sure it’s not
> accidental.
>
> Regards,
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> Simon Sapin
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