From: Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org>
>So yes, Christopher is wrong to suggest that the new operators should be part of Mapping, but only because he should have said (and presumably meant) MutableMapping.

Indeed I did, thanks. I wasn't really thinking about it, because there isn't a immutable Mapping type  builtin at all.

-CHB

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