[Python-Dev] What's a PyStructSequence ? (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:26:10 +0100

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:

> A bug report on SF made me aware of an apparently new type in Python > called PyStructSequence. There are no docs on the type (at least > not in the usual places). > > Is it official yet ? It will ship as part of Python 2.2, if that is what you are asking. os.stat is documented to return one of these (if you read it carefully).

Wouldn't it make sense to expose this object in Python, e.g. by contructing it from a dictionary of string mappings ?

(The type constructor is not made available in bltinmodule.c.)

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