On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 05:10:49PM +0100, Jonathan Fine wrote: > Hi Martin > > Summary: Thank you. Your suggestion has good points. I suggest to > advance it (i) provide a pure Python implementation of namedlist, and > (ii) ask that the Python docs for namedtuple provide a link to > namedlist.
Before Martin (and you) get carried away doing these things, there's a lot more to do first. For starters, how about answering the questions I asked? Recapping: - The package author describes this as a record class, not a list, and it doesn't seem to support any list operations, so why do you and Martin want to change the name to namedlist? - What would it mean to insert, sort, append etc named items in a list? When would you want to do it? - Have you asked the author what he thinks about putting it in the standard library? (The author calls it a "proof of concept", and it is version 0.5. That doesn't sound like the author considers this a mature product.) - How is this different from data classes? If the answer is that this supports iteration, why not add iteration to data classes? See this thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-August/052683.html [...] > 1. Focus on getting and meeting the expressed needs of users. A link > from the Python docs will help here. It's not the job of the Python docs to link to every and any third-party package that somebody might find useful. It might -- perhaps -- make sense for the docs to mention or link to third-party libraries such as numpy which are widely recognised as "best of breed". (Not that numpy needs a link from the std lib.) But in general it is hardly fair for us to single out some arbitrary third- party libraries for official recognition while other libraries, perhaps better or more worthy, are ignored. Put yourself in the shoes of somebody who has worked hard to get a package into a mature state, and then the Python docs start linking to a competing alpha-quality package just because by pure chance, that was the package that got mentioned on Python-Ideas first. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
