As classes que herdam da Immutableclasse a seguir são imutáveis, assim como suas instâncias, após o término da __init__execução do método. Como é python puro, como outros já apontaram, não há nada que impeça alguém de usar os métodos especiais mutantes da base objectetype , mas isso é suficiente para impedir que alguém mude uma classe / instância por acidente.
Ele funciona seqüestrando o processo de criação de classe com uma metaclasse.
"""Subclasses of class Immutable are immutable after their __init__ has run, in
the sense that all special methods with mutation semantics (in-place operators,
setattr, etc.) are forbidden.
"""
# Enumerate the mutating special methods
mutation_methods = set()
# Arithmetic methods with in-place operations
iarithmetic = '''add sub mul div mod divmod pow neg pos abs bool invert lshift
rshift and xor or floordiv truediv matmul'''.split()
for op in iarithmetic:
mutation_methods.add('__i%s__' % op)
# Operations on instance components (attributes, items, slices)
for verb in ['set', 'del']:
for component in '''attr item slice'''.split():
mutation_methods.add('__%s%s__' % (verb, component))
# Operations on properties
mutation_methods.update(['__set__', '__delete__'])
def checked_call(_self, name, method, *args, **kwargs):
"""Calls special method method(*args, **kw) on self if mutable."""
self = args[0] if isinstance(_self, object) else _self
if not getattr(self, '__mutable__', True):
# self told us it's immutable, so raise an error
cname= (self if isinstance(self, type) else self.__class__).__name__
raise TypeError('%s is immutable, %s disallowed' % (cname, name))
return method(*args, **kwargs)
def method_wrapper(_self, name):
"Wrap a special method to check for mutability."
method = getattr(_self, name)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
return checked_call(_self, name, method, *args, **kwargs)
wrapper.__name__ = name
wrapper.__doc__ = method.__doc__
return wrapper
def wrap_mutating_methods(_self):
"Place the wrapper methods on mutative special methods of _self"
for name in mutation_methods:
if hasattr(_self, name):
method = method_wrapper(_self, name)
type.__setattr__(_self, name, method)
def set_mutability(self, ismutable):
"Set __mutable__ by using the unprotected __setattr__"
b = _MetaImmutable if isinstance(self, type) else Immutable
super(b, self).__setattr__('__mutable__', ismutable)
class _MetaImmutable(type):
'''The metaclass of Immutable. Wraps __init__ methods via __call__.'''
def __init__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
# Make class mutable for wrapping special methods
set_mutability(cls, True)
wrap_mutating_methods(cls)
# Disable mutability
set_mutability(cls, False)
def __call__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
'''Make an immutable instance of cls'''
self = cls.__new__(cls)
# Make the instance mutable for initialization
set_mutability(self, True)
# Execute cls's custom initialization on this instance
self.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
# Disable mutability
set_mutability(self, False)
return self
# Given a class T(metaclass=_MetaImmutable), mutative special methods which
# already exist on _MetaImmutable (a basic type) cannot be over-ridden
# programmatically during _MetaImmutable's instantiation of T, because the
# first place python looks for a method on an object is on the object's
# __class__, and T.__class__ is _MetaImmutable. The two extant special
# methods on a basic type are __setattr__ and __delattr__, so those have to
# be explicitly overridden here.
def __setattr__(cls, name, value):
checked_call(cls, '__setattr__', type.__setattr__, cls, name, value)
def __delattr__(cls, name, value):
checked_call(cls, '__delattr__', type.__delattr__, cls, name, value)
class Immutable(object):
"""Inherit from this class to make an immutable object.
__init__ methods of subclasses are executed by _MetaImmutable.__call__,
which enables mutability for the duration.
"""
__metaclass__ = _MetaImmutable
class T(int, Immutable): # Checks it works with multiple inheritance, too.
"Class for testing immutability semantics"
def __init__(self, b):
self.b = b
@classmethod
def class_mutation(cls):
cls.a = 5
def instance_mutation(self):
self.c = 1
def __iadd__(self, o):
pass
def not_so_special_mutation(self):
self +=1
def immutabilityTest(f, name):
"Call f, which should try to mutate class T or T instance."
try:
f()
except TypeError, e:
assert 'T is immutable, %s disallowed' % name in e.args
else:
raise RuntimeError('Immutability failed!')
immutabilityTest(T.class_mutation, '__setattr__')
immutabilityTest(T(6).instance_mutation, '__setattr__')
immutabilityTest(T(6).not_so_special_mutation, '__iadd__')
.ae.b? Afinal, é para isso que as propriedades existem.