[Python-ideas] Make Python code read-only

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/21/2014 02:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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> For this use case, monkey patching is not an incidental feature to be tolerated merely for backwards compatibility
> reasons: it is a key capability that makes Python an ideal language for me, as it takes ultimate control of what
> dependencies do away from the original author and places it in my hands as the system integrator. This is a dangerous
> power, not to be used lightly, but it also grants me the ability to work around critical bugs in dependencies at run
> time, rather than having to fork and patch the source the way Java developers tend to do.

+inf

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~Ethan~