Hi, I ran across this nice article a few days ago - https://death.andgravity.com/namedtuples
which provides some answers as to why you might consider using named tuples. best, —titus > On Jul 28, 2021, at 3:22 PM, pa...@lexyr.com wrote: > > [Migrating the discussion from https://bugs.python.org/issue44768.] > > PEP 20 says: > >> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. > > There are two ways to create a simple named type to store data: > collections.namedtuple and dataclasses.dataclass. I propose deprecating > namedtuple. > > As far as the interface is concerned, the namedtuple is almost completely > equivalent to a frozen dataclass - with some iterability syntactic sugar > thrown in. I don't think there are use cases for namedtuple that would not be > trivial to rewrite with dataclasses. > > As far as the implementation is concerned, the namedtuple is faster. If > efficiency is a concern, why do we make our users decide? We can choose the > most efficient one on the library's end. C++ does something similar with bool > vectors - the library has a special case for where it would be more optimal > to use a different data structure underneath. > > > TL;DR: If dataclass is so good, why keep namedtuple around? > _______________________________________________ > 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/UQRCDWMFNC5NRLLQCTYPOEGWJOIV7BGJ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ 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/LGF64BSY7PWY7E7TON2ST2BYZFDJGAVO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
