[Python-Dev] PEP 351, the freeze protocol (original) (raw)

Gary Poster gary at modernsongs.com
Mon Oct 24 17:04:52 CEST 2005

On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I've had this PEP laying around for quite a few months. It was inspired by some code we'd written which wanted to be able to get immutable versions of arbitrary objects. I've finally finished the PEP, uploaded a sample patch (albeit a bit incomplete), and I'm posting it here to see if there is any interest.

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0351.html

I like this. I'd like it better if it integrated with the adapter
PEP, so that the freezing mechanism for a given type could be
pluggable, and could be provided even if the original object did not
contemplate it. I don't know where the adapter PEP stands: skimming
through the (most recent?) thread in January didn't give me a clear
idea.

As another poster mentioned, in-place freezing is also of interest to
me (and why I read the PEP Initially), but as also as mentioned
that's probably unrelated to your PEP.

Gary

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