[Python-Dev] constant/enum type in stdlib (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Nov 28 22:23:56 CET 2010
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Rob Cliffe wrote:
But couldn't they be presented to the Python programmer as a single type, with the implementation details hidden "under the hood"?
Not in CPython, because tuple items are kept in the same block of memory as the object header. Because CPython can't move objects, this means that the size of the tuple must be known when the object is created.
-- Greg
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