[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r59947 - in python/trunk:Lib/test/test_structseq.py Misc/NEWS (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jan 14 08:22:09 CET 2008

Hmm, is that really necessary? structseq has been in use for quite a while and this need hasn't come up -- it's been designed to be quite compatible with tuple except for isinstance checks, and that has worked well.

In addition, I would like to suggest that the current structseq usage is changed to regular classes (perhaps with slots) in Python 3. structseq was a compatibility mechanism for existing code that assumes the things returned are tuples, when they are really objects with named fields.

So for struct stat and struct tm in particular, I think the indexed access should be removed in Python 3. Whether then structseq needs to be preserved at all, I don't know.

Regards, Martin

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