See my previous response to Chris: > What are the named fields supposed to be if the datastructure is being > treated as a sequence? Indices again? Then what's the point of using > namedtuple rather than tuple in the first place?
> And, by the way, field names must be valid identifiers. > So again, what are the field names supposed to be if the datastructure is > being treated as a sequence, of possibly arbitrary length? ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 6:19 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 15/03/22 6:14 am, wfdc via Python-ideas wrote: > > > The whole point is that namedtuples let you use named fields rather than > > indices. That's the point. That's the purpose. > > I would say the point of namedtuple is to let you use either field > > names or indices, whichever makes the most sense for what you're > > doing at the time. Otherwise why not just use a regular class? > > -- > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/6Z3SGL4AJEBS2W4URZ5D4UH4KKPC6IAX/ > > 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/BDSIDWEQO3KFWQBN2EFSSWMHOJJS6OGZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
