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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 10:28:39 CET 2007

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

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. Can you give a few example, for libraries where this isn't already done?

I don't have any specific examples of that, no - that's why I phrased it as a question.

However, another aspect that occurred to me is that inheriting from tuple has significant practical benefits in terms of speed and memory consumption, at which point it doesn't seem worthwhile to remove the indexing capability.

I suppose you could write a completely new C-level record class, but given that Raymond's NamedTuple class gets good performance from a Python implementation, rewriting it in C seems like wasted effort.

Regards, Nick.

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