Terry Reedy schrieb:
Georg Brandl wrote:
What I do not know if it is feasible to give an immutable instance of a builtin class a mutable attribute slot.
As soon as you can mutate an instance, it is not an immutable type anymore. Calling it "immutable" despite will cause trouble. (The same bytes instance could be used somewhere else transparently, e.g. as a function default argument, or cached as a constant local.)
OK, scratch that implementation of my idea.
As for the usefulness, I often have to work with proprietary communication protocols between computer and devices, and there the bytes have no encoding whatsoever
Random bits? It seems to me that protocol means some sort of encoding, formatting, or structuring, some sort of agreed on interpretation, even if private.
Sure, but nothing you could map entirely onto a string of Unicode characters. Georg