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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:43:33 -0500
Subject: Re: frozendict
From: Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com>
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> Turn the question around: why should there be?
> Python is intentionally parsimonious in adding builtins.

For the same reason there are frozensets?

I put dicts in sets all the time.  I just tuple the items, but that
means you have to re-dict it on the way out to do anything useful with
it.  I am too lazy to write a frozendict or import one, but I would
use it if it was a builtin.


Nathan