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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:12:03 +0000
Subject: Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples
To: John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com>
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On 18 February 2013 13:51, John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/02/13 12:03, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>> On 18 February 2013 11:47, John Reid <johnbaronreid@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was hoping namedtuples could be used as replacements for tuples in all instances.
>> namedtuples are not really intended to serves as tuples anywhere. They
>> are intended to provide lightweight, immutable, hashable objects with
>> *named* (rather than numbered) values.
>
> If they are not supposed to be tuples then calling them namedtuples and
> inheriting from tuple seems a little odd.

You can use namedtuple instances in places that expect tuples.
Inheriting from tuples enables them to be all the things I said:
lightweight, immutable and hashable. The type object itself has a
different interface for the constructor, though.


Oscar