From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T10:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't change the value of self

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 09:47 +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
> > Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> > 
> >> Can't change the value of self (SyntaxError)
> >>     self = round_to *args
> >>
> >> Why doesn't it work? What can I do instead?
> > 
> > 
> > "Destructive" methods must alter self using that self's existing 
> > destructive methods.
> 
> To which we should add: Time has no destructive methods, since
> Time objects are immutable.
> 
> But someone once created a MutableTime class -- anyone recall
> who/when/where and whether it's complete?

Thanks for the replies. Why is Time immutable (presumably it's
deliberately designed like that)? The MutableTime class sounds
interesting but it's probably overkill for what I wanted to do -- I'll
just modify variables at a higher level.

Thanks

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