From: Barun Singh <barunio@...>
Date: 2009-02-09T06:31:00+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to protect class instance variables

Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions.  My concern wasn't related to 
malicious code, it was more just trying to find the best way to prevent 
someone from accidentally overwriting the value of the class instance 
variable without realizing it (for example, if someone accidentally 
types "x = MyClass.blah" instead of "x == MyClass.blah".  I didn't like 
my original way of doing it only because it required copying all of the 
variable's attributes every time the accessor method was called, which 
seemed wasteful.  So for my purposes, the "freeze" method works great..
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