[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and dbm modules

[Fred Drake]

On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> If the literal form is frozen, on the other hand,
> you only incur these overheads when you really need
> a mutable copy of the data.

Indeed.  I have no reason to think the desire for a frozen form is  
the oddball case; I suspect it will be much more common than the need  
for mutable bytes objects from literal data in my own code.


   -Fred

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