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when would a frozenset be needed? - Skaperen - Mar-28-2020
when would a frozenset be needed over a regular set? or why?
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - buran - Mar-28-2020
for one frozenset can be used as key in a dict. it's a direct result of frozenset being immutable. if you want to prevent set being changed- e.g. think of tuple vs list.
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - ndc85430 - Mar-28-2020
Same as when you asked about tuples vs. lists - immutability is a good idea.
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - Skaperen - Mar-29-2020
then why is there no immutable equivalent to dictionary?
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - buran - Mar-29-2020
there is, although as a third-party package on PyPI:
forzendict
As to why not in the Standard Library, read the rejected PEP 416
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - Skaperen - Apr-01-2020
OK, yeah, i can see many complications, now, like values have to be unchangeable and immutable.
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - buran - Apr-14-2020
today I saw there is draft PEP 603 - Adding a frozenmap type to collections
It may be interesting to you in the light of the discussion above
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - Skaperen - Apr-14-2020
so a FrozenMapCopy does not actually change when modifications are applied, but a frozenmap created from a modified FrozenMapCopy reflects those changes?
i don't understand how can be passed to the frozenmap constructor; creating a frozenmap from a FrozenMapCopy object is an O(1) operation; can be O(1).
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - buran - Apr-14-2020
(Apr-14-2020, 07:55 PM)Skaperen Wrote: FrozenMapCopy does not actually change when modifications are applied,I think you misunderstood this part, it's the other way around - the frozenmap does not reflect the changes in FrozenMapCOpy
Quote:[FrozenMappCopy] are mutable, although any mutations on them do not affect the frozenmap instances they were created from;
RE: when would a frozenset be needed? - Skaperen - Apr-14-2020
i'm not saying (the opposite of) that. i'm saying... modifications to FrozenMapCopy ...do not actually change that FrozenMapCopy (but instead record the modifications in a way that allows a new frozenmap created from it to be as if the frozenmap were mutable and copied). i get this from that example code (the big example after frozenmap.mutating()) that did
del copy[591221] twice without an error.