From: Erlend Egeberg Aasland <erlend.aasland@innova.no>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 06:47:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-43908: Make array.array type immutable (GH-25696)
X-Git-Tag: v3.10.0b1~100
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6ad03fddf4b04c60dca4327140e59fb2dcca8e5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-43908: Make array.array type immutable (GH-25696)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_array.py b/Lib/test/test_array.py
index bdcd1254b304..11184add6d39 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ class MiscTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, array.array, 'xx')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, array.array, 'x')
 
+    @support.cpython_only
+    def test_immutable(self):
+        # bpo-43908: check that array.array is immutable
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            array.array.foo = 1
+
     def test_empty(self):
         # Exercise code for handling zero-length arrays
         a = array.array('B')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-04-26-20-59-17.bpo-43908.-COW4-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-04-26-20-59-17.bpo-43908.-COW4-.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07303b99d1f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-04-26-20-59-17.bpo-43908.-COW4-.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Make the :class:`array.array` type immutable. Patch by
+Erlend E. Aasland.
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
index f5326789521d..367621fd03b8 100644
--- a/Modules/arraymodule.c
+++ b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -2847,7 +2847,8 @@ static PyType_Slot array_slots[] = {
 static PyType_Spec array_spec = {
     .name = "array.array",
     .basicsize = sizeof(arrayobject),
-    .flags = Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE,
+    .flags = (Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE |
+              Py_TPFLAGS_IMMUTABLETYPE),
     .slots = array_slots,
 };