[Python-Dev] Should vars() return modifiable dict?

[Larry Hastings]

On 10/05/2012 01:59 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> I've never understood why locals() returned a mutable dictionary
> either, except that Python has no immutable dictionary type.

Ah, but these days it has types.MappingProxyType which provides a 
read-only wrapper around another mapping type.  Perhaps that should be 
employed here.


//arry/
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