Possible to create a read-only complex object?

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:51 AM,  <python at bdurham.com> wrote:
> I have a complex object with attributes that contain lists, sets,
> dictionaries, and other objects. The lists and dictionaries may themselves
> contain complex objects.
>
> I would like to provide a read-only version of this type of object for other
> developers to query for reporting.
>
> Is there a way to prevent other developers from changing the attributes of
> my complex and nested object?

Have you considered just making a deep copy of your object instead?
That way, others could inspect the copy and mess with it all they
want, without affecting the original.
http://docs.python.org/library/copy.html#copy.deepcopy

Cheers,
Chris
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