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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:53:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Differences creating tuples and collections.namedtuples
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On 18 February 2013 14:23, John Reid <j.reid@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> That said it would be nice to know the rationale for
> namedtuple.__new__ to have a different signature to tuple.__new__. I'm
> guessing namedtuple._make has a similar interface to tuple.__new__. Does
> anyone know what the rationale was for this design?

Because namedtuples use names for the arguments in the constructor:

>>> from collections import namedtuple
>>> Point = namedtuple('Point', 'x y')
>>> p1 = Point(x=2, y=3)
>>> p1
Point(x=2, y=3)
>>> p1.x
2


Oscar