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Q4.2.4frozenset

If frozenset objects are immutable, how is this possible:

>>> a = frozenset((1,2,3))
>>> a |= {2,3,4,5}
>>> print(a)
frozenset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
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Note that the statement

>>> a |= {2,3,4,5}

does not change the frozenset but rather creates a new one from the union of the old one and the set {2,3,4,5}. (In the same way, we have seen that for int object i, the assignment i = i + 1 rebinds the label i to a the new integer object with value i+1 rather than changing the value of the immutable int object previously bound to i).