[Python-ideas] "Immutable Builder" Pattern and Operator

[Wes Turner]

On Sunday, January 22, 2017, Soni L. <fakedme+py at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sunday, January 22, 2017, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com
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>> Have you looked at pyrsistent for immutable/functional/persistent/copy-on-write
>> data structures in Python?
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>> https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent/
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>> (freeze() / thaw())
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>> ... e.g. List and Dict NamedTuple values are not immutable (because
>> append() and update() still work)
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> fn.py also has immutables:
> https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py/blob/master/README.rst#
> persistent-data-structures
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> You seem to be thinking of "immutable object builder". Not "the builder
> itself is immutable and operations on it create new builders".
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My mistake.
Something like @optionable and/or @curried from fn.py in conjunction with
PClass from pyrsistent may accomplish what you describe?


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>> On Sunday, January 22, 2017, Soni L. <fakedme+py at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I've been thinking of an Immutable Builder pattern and an operator to go
>>> with it. Since the builder would be immutable, this wouldn't work:
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>>> long_name = mkbuilder()
>>> long_name.seta(a)
>>> long_name.setb(b)
>>> y = long_name.build()
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>>> Instead, you'd need something more like this:
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>>> long_name = mkbuilder()
>>> long_name = long_name.seta(a)
>>> long_name = long_name.setb(b)
>>> y = long_name.build()
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>>> Or we could add an operator to simplify it:
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>>> long_name = mkbuilder()
>>> long_name .= seta(a)
>>> long_name .= setb(b)
>>> y = long_name.build()
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>>> (Yes, I'm aware you can x = mkbuilder().seta(a).setb(b), then y =
>>> x.build(). But that doesn't work if you wanna "fork" the builder. Some
>>> builders, like a builder for network connections of some sort, would work
>>> best if they were immutable/forkable.)
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