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Stooryduster<p>For every <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/librarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>librarian</span></a> in the world. <br>And F*k <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> for it is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ephemeral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ephemeral</span></a> and now easily <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mutable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutable</span></a>.</p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@phurd" class="u-url mention">@<span>phurd</span></a></span> </p><p>This is a take! More often people complain about how hard it is to achieve true immutability in Python.</p><p>list(tuple_instance) to the rescue, I guess :)</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mutable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mutable</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/immutable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immutable</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oceanplayground.social/@matt" class="u-url mention">@<span>matt</span></a></span> </p><p>This does bite people in Python, as it applies to lists and dicts in addition to Pandas or whatever that is.</p><p>list and dict have copy() methods, but they&#39;re shallow copies. If you have mutable objects in your list or dict, those can be changed by someone with a copy...</p><p>Use copy.deepcopy() to ensure you get a mutable object that no one else (barring evil intent...) has a handle to fiddle with its contents.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mutable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mutable</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DeepCopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeepCopy</span></a></p>
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