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A blog post on choosing more specific types rather than general ones like list and dict.

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[โ€“] o11c@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that there's a severe hole in the ABCs: there is no distinction between "container whose elements are mutable" and "container whose elements and size are mutable".

(related, there's no distinction for supporting slice operations or not, e.g. deque)

[โ€“] meadsteve@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah there's definitely a lot of room for improvement here