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Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples

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On 18 February 2013 14:09, John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 18/02/13 12:11, Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 06:47 AM, John Reid wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was hoping namedtuples could be used as replacements for tuples in
>>> all instances. There seem to be some differences between how tuples
>>> and namedtuples are created. For example with a tuple I can do:
>>>
>>> a=tuple([1,2,3])
>>>
>>> with namedtuples I get a TypeError:
>>>
>>> from collections import namedtuple
>>> B=namedtuple('B', 'x y z')
>>> b=B([1,2,3])
>>
>> You are passing a single list to the constructor, but you specified that
>> the namedtuple was to have 3 items.  So you need two more.
>
> I'm aware how to construct the namedtuple and the tuple. My point was
> that they use different syntaxes for the same operation and this seems
> to break ipython. I was wondering if this is a necessary design feature
> or perhaps just an oversight on the part of the namedtuple author or
> ipython developers.

I would say that depending on isinstance(obj, tuple) was the error. I
can't offer a suggestion as you haven't clarified what the purpose of
this code in canSequence() is or what constraints it is expected to
satisfy.


Oscar

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Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 03:47 -0800
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 12:03 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 12:05 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-18 07:11 -0500
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 13:49 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 13:51 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-02-18 14:09 +0000
    Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples raymond.hettinger@gmail.com - 2013-02-18 23:48 -0800
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 08:06 +0000
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 08:57 +0000
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 08:06 +0000
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 08:05 +0000
    Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples raymond.hettinger@gmail.com - 2013-02-18 23:48 -0800
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 14:15 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 14:18 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 14:12 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-02-18 14:23 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 14:53 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-02-18 15:07 +0000
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-18 16:28 -0500
    Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 11:18 +1100
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 01:43 +0000
        Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-19 14:06 +1100
          Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-02-19 21:27 +1300
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-02-19 20:54 +1300
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-02-19 09:30 +0000
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-19 22:38 -0500
        Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-22 10:38 +0000
      Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 17:50 +1100
        Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-20 09:09 -0500
    Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-18 20:11 -0500
  Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 17:47 -0800
    Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-02-19 09:36 +0000

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