On 1/10/20 4:25 pm, David Mertz wrote:
In all the years I've used and taught namedtuples, I think I've never used the ._replace() method.  The leading underscore is a hint that the method is "private"

Usually that would be true, but namedtuple is a special case. The
docs make it clear that the underscore is there to prevent it from
clashing with a potential field name, not to suggest privateness.

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Greg
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