I want to subclass dict in python such that all the dictionaries of the sub-class are immutable. I don't understand how does __hash__ affects the immutability, since in my understanding it just signifies the equality or non-equality of objects ! So, can __hash__ be used to implement immutability ? How ? Update: Objective is that common response from an API is available as a dict, which has to be shared as a global variable. So, that needs to be intact no matter what ? Continue reading...
