May 13, 2003
9:38 p.m.
I would prefer to think of this is a useful feature rather than a wart. Finally we can have true constants!
Yuck. If you want that, define a property-like class that doesn't allow setting. These "constants" of yours are easily subverted by defining a subclass which adds an instance __dict__ (any subclass that doesn't define __slots__ of its own does this). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)