Hi! I've just published a PEP to add a frozenmap type to Python; it should be online shortly. Read it here: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-603-adding-a-frozenmap-type-to-collections/... Here's an excerpt from the Abstract: A *persistent data structure* is defined as a data structure that preserves the previous version of the data when the data is modified. Such data structures are effectively *immutable*, as operations on them do not update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure (see [0]_ for more details.) This PEP proposes to add a new fully persistent and immutable mapping type called ``frozenmap`` to the ``collections`` module. The bulk of ``frozenmap``'s reference implementation is already used in CPython to implement the ``contextvars`` module. Yury