In dataclasses, support for __slots__ is being added in 3.10. Adding optional support for iteration would be easy.
-- Eric V. Smith > On Jul 28, 2021, at 7:29 PM, Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote: > > > I'm with you; since dataclasses were introduced, namedtuple has not see any > use from me, though none of my uses have demanded ultra-high efficiency > either. > > I wonder how many users are currently relying on namedtuple __getitem__ > semantics though. that's functionality dataclasses do not (currently) have. > > Random thought I don't know the answer to: Any reason __slots__ can't be used > on a dataclass to improve efficiency? > > >> On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 22:22 +0000, 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/4NOUPTLNNJJMM3XSN3WEK32NWRJDAVRD/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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