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There are many good uses for read-only - or immutable - property descriptors. In fact, there is a lot to back up the idea of having everything be effectively immutable. Unfortunately, due to Python's inherent lack of being able to make anything actually immutable, interpreter optimization isn't one of those possible benefits with Python.
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Zimmerman, J. (2016). Read-Only Descriptors. In: Python Descriptors. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2505-9_8
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