immutabledict 3.0.0

Immutable wrapper around dictionaries (a fork of frozendict)

immutabledict

A fork of the original frozendict, an immutable wrapper around dictionaries. This library is a pure Python, MIT-licensed alternative to the new LGPL-3.0 licensed frozendict.

It implements the complete mapping interface and can be used as a drop-in replacement for dictionaries where immutability is desired. The immutabledict constructor mimics dict, and all of the expected interfaces (iter, len, repr, hash, getitem) are provided. Note that an immutabledict does not guarantee the immutability of its values, so the utility of hash method is restricted by usage.

Installation

Official release in on pypy as immutabledict.

Community-maintained releases are available:

• On conda-forge as immutabledict
• On various package repositories

Example

from immutabledict import immutabledict

my_item = immutabledict({"a": "value", "b": "other_value"})
print(my_item["a"]) # Print "value"

Differences with the old original frozendict package

• Dropped support of EOL Python versions (older versions of the library may support older Python versions)
• Fixed collections.Mapping deprecation warning
• Typing
• PEP 584 union operators
• Keep the same signature for copy() as dict (starting with immutabledict 3.0.0), don't accept extra keyword arguments.