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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:25:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Immutability and Python
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
>> Also because how doi I make an immutable object in pure Python?
>
> Numbers in Python are already immutable.  What you're really looking for
> is a programming style where you don't bind any variable more than once.

No, they were looking for a way to create classes whose instances are immutable.

Also, immutability has nothing to do with the presence or lack of for loops.

-- Devin