This is the kernel of a really useful idea, IMO. In fact, I already proposed something related to this-- unification of dict-making APIs-- back in May:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2019-May/056491.html But I like the Struct ABC approach you've suggested, too. --- Ricky. "I've never met a Kentucky man who wasn't either thinking about going home or actually going home." - Happy Chandler On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM Steve Jorgensen <ste...@stevej.name> wrote: > I feel like this proposal is not quite right, but maybe the idea will > provoke some thoughts about something similar that -would- be right. > > The idea first came to me upon realizing that since `namedtuple` classes > have no special base class beyond `tuple`, there should be some way of > identifying them as being primarily structural, even though they are > instances of `tuple` which, in other cases, usually means something that is > primarily sequential. > > It is easily possible to identify a namedtuple by checking to see whether > it has an `_asdict` method, but it might be nice to formalize the way that > struct-like objects are identified in a virtual base class and be something > that had application beyond just checking whether a `tuple` is a > `namedtuple`. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AILX6XPDDYUB3MDZIPM5D77H5H6AFZMX/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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