[Python-Dev] PEP 567 v2 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jan 4 23:15:11 EST 2018


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Well, it's not immutable (it shouldn't support hash()), but it doesn't follow the MutableMapping protocol -- it only follows the Mapping protocol.

That's why I wrote "mapping" with a small "m". If there's a better term for "collection of associations between keys and values that can be changed somehow" then by all means use it.

-- Greg



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