[Python-Dev] Possible patch for functools partial - Interested?

[Daniel Urban]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:47, Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2010 06:39 AM, Daniel Urban wrote:
>>
>> I've made a new patch, in which the keywords attribute is a read-only
>> proxy of the dictionary.
>
> What about backward compatibility?  This looks like an incompatible change.

You're probably right. I'd be happy to make patch which doesn't
replace the dict with the proxy. But that would mean, that the hash
value isn't really immutable.

Daniel Urban