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frozendict is an immutable wrapper around dictionaries that implements the
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complete mapping interface. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for
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dictionaries where immutability is desired.
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Of course, this is Python, and you can still poke around the object's internals
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if you want.
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The frozendict constructor mimics dict, and all of the expected interfaces
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(iter, len, repr, hash, getitem) are provided. Note that a frozendict does not
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guarantee the immutability of its values, so the utility of hash method is
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restricted by usage.
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The only difference is that the copy() method of frozendict takes variable
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keyword arguments, which will be present as key/value pairs in the new,
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immutable copy.
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