March 2, 2012
2:44 a.m.
On 2012-03-01, at 9:31 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
That sounds *very* far-fetched. You're pretty much designing a new language variant. It's not an argument for burdening the original
Yeah, that's what we do ;)
You should be able to prototype what you want using an advisory subclass (if you subclass dict and add __slots__=[] to it, it will cost very little overhead) or using a custom extension that implements the flavor of frozendict that works best for you -- given that you're already using greenlets, another extension can't be a bid burden.
I understand. The only reason I wrote about it is to give an idea of how frozendicts may be used besides just sandboxing. I'm not strongly advocating for it, though. - Yury