[Python-Dev] Py2.6 ideas (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Fri Feb 16 00:41:51 CET 2007 

>> Hm, but why would they still have to be tuples? Why not just have a
>> generic 'record' class?

Tim> Hmm - possibilities. "record" definitely has greater connotations
Tim> of heterogeneous elements than "tuple", which would put paid to the
Tim> constant arguments that "a tuple is really just an immutable list".

(What do you mean by "... put paid ..."? It doesn't parse for me.) Based on posts the current thread in c.l.py with the improbable subject "f---ing typechecking", lots of people refuse to believe tuples are anything other than immutable lists.

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