Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

After discussion on PR#145362, it became clear that there are many possibilities for unintended mutations in thepartialobject inModule/_functoolsmodule.c, particularly for thekw dictionary for keywords. Thus, changingkw to be afrozendict could prevent any unintended consequences.

Additionally, right now, the keys ofkw could be an arbitraryPyObject, leading to unintended code execution if they are not strings. Thus, enforcing that the entries are strings could solve any future problems (similar to what happened in#145362).

Lastly, Issue#145446 also makes sure that there are no unintended mutations in thefunctools internals for free-threading, but changing to using afrozendict would be a more robust solution.

I will work on this and create a PR in the next couple of days. I will wait until#145446 is resolved to avoid any conflicts.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

#145362 (comment)