On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote:

And the one that actually _is_ a restriction isn't at the grammar level, it's just hiding a bunch of methods (list.append, presumably list.__setitem__, etc.).

which is odd, because Python already has an immutable sequence -- it's call a tuple.

-Chris

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