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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 09:45:16 CET 2007

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Raymond Hettinger schrieb:

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 I'd like to repeat Guido's question: Why does this still need to support the tuple interface (i.e. indexed access)?

So that it remains interoperable with existing libraries that expect a tuple? Otherwise you'd be casting (and copying) every time you needed to pass it to something that used indexed access.

Cheers, Nick.

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