[Python-Dev] PEP 351, the freeze protocol

[Adam Olsen]

On 10/23/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> I've had this PEP laying around for quite a few months.  It was inspired
> by some code we'd written which wanted to be able to get immutable
> versions of arbitrary objects.  I've finally finished the PEP, uploaded
> a sample patch (albeit a bit incomplete), and I'm posting it here to see
> if there is any interest.
>
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0351.html

My sandboxes need freezing for some stuff and ultimately freezable
user classes will be desirable, but for performance reasons I prefer
freezing inplace.  Not much overlap with PEP 351 really.

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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus