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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:51:41 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: Convert namedtuple to dictionary
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On 2013-09-26 01:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:41:25 -0500, Tim Chase wrote about
> namedtuple:
> 
> > While it uses the "private" member-variable "_fields", you can do
> 
> It's not actually private!
> 
> namedtuple is documented as an exception to the rule that methods 
> starting with a single leading underscore are private. Named tuples 
> define three public methods and one data attribute. In order to
> avoid clashing with field names, they start with a single
> underscore, but they are documented as public:
> 
> _make
> _asdict
> _replace
> _fields

Well dang if "leading underscore suggests private/internal use"
convention got tossed out the window here :)

But indeed, they are in the docs, so (to the OP), use _asdict() and
make life easy.

-tkc