Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Raymond Hettinger schrieb: >> No need to go so widely off-track. The idea is to have an efficient type >> that >> is directly substitutable for tuples but is a bit more self-descriptive. I >> like >> to have the doctest result cast at NamedTuple('TestResults failed >> attempted). >> The repr of that result looks like TestResult(failed=0, attempted=15) but >> is >> still accessible as a tuple and passes easily into other functions that >> expect a >> tuple. This sort of thing would be handly for things like os.stat(). >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500261 > > 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. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com