[Raymond Hettinger]
>>> * Add a pure python named_tuple class to the collections module.
>>> I've been using the class for about a year and found that it greatly
>>> improves the usability of tuples as records.
>>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500261
[Delaney, Timothy]
> Hmm - possibilities. "record" definitely has greater connotations of
> heterogeneous elements than "tuple", which would put paid to the
> constant arguments that "a tuple is really just an immutable list".
No need to go so widely off-track. The idea is to have an efficient type that
is directly substitutable for tuples but is a bit more self-descriptive. I
like
to have the doctest result cast at NamedTuple('TestResults failed attempted).
The repr of that result looks like TestResult(failed=0, attempted=15) but is
still accessible as a tuple and passes easily into other functions that expect
a
tuple. This sort of thing would be handly for things like os.stat().
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500261
Raymond
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