[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: PEP 416: remove mentions of mutable/immutable (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Mar 10 17:23:45 CET 2012


On 3/10/2012 5:43 AM, victor.stinner wrote:

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/7278026a5db9 changeset: 4124:7278026a5db9 user: Victor Stinner<victor.stinner at gmail.com> date: Sat Mar 10 11:43:45 2012 +0100 summary: PEP 416: remove mentions of mutable/immutable

files: pep-0416.txt | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0416.txt b/pep-0416.txt --- a/pep-0416.txt +++ b/pep-0416.txt @@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ ========= A frozendict is a read-only mapping: a key cannot be added nor removed, and a -key is always mapped to the same value. However, frozendict values can be -mutable (not hashable). A frozendict is hashable and so immutable if and only -if all values are hashable (immutable). +key is always mapped to the same value. However, frozendict values can be not +hashable. A frozendict is hashable if and only if all values are hashable.

I think this would be better with 'key is always mapped to the same value object'. The revised second sentence does not add anything. Some Python objects are hashable and some not. There is nothing special about frozendict value objects either way. The proper revision of your original is "However, frozendict value may not be hashable." Either change to that or remove it.

Terry



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