Issue 2308: Make structseq more like collections.namedtuple (original) (raw)

The built-in type structseq (used by e.g. os.stat() for the stat structure and by the time module for a time tuple) resembles the new namedtuple type added to the collections module in 2.6.

It would be nice if these had at least a common ABC if not a shared implementation.

At the same time I think that in 3.0 we should remove the feature of "hidden fields" which is used to have structs that behave like fixed-size tuples even though they have a variable number of named fields (the list of names varies per platform). We should deprecate the use of tuple-unpacking for these (except for the first 6 fields of a timetuple, perhaps).