On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
It's possible to write builtin types that are truly immutable, and
there are several examples of that (direct instances of object, tuple
instances, instances of the builtin numeric types),

Maybe this is an argument for namedtuple to be a "proper" builtin.

Though, as the names have to be defined at run time, I suppose that isn't possible.

-CHB


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