Again, you neglected to answer the question: > what are the field names supposed to be if the datastructure is being treated > as a sequence, of possibly arbitrary length?
> Since a namedtuple is supposed to be both a sequence and a record, the names > are part of the record interface, and the sequence is still part of that. The point is that I *don't* want to treat it as a record, and I have no reason to. That's precisely the point I'm making! > the field names don't have to be valid identifiers Yes, they do. > if it's a sequence of arbitrary length, then why is it a tuple at all? Why wouldn't it be? A tuple is a sequence. And a sequence can be of arbitrary length. > You assume that it has to be a tuple but not a namedtuple, but a namedtuple > IS a tuple. See my first question. > Do you see why we've been asking you to SHOW YOUR CODE? I already provided *plenty* of examples through the Sourcegraph queries. There's no reason for me to give you my specific code, nor does it help this discussion in any way, since I already gave you plenty of examples. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 7:04 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 10:02, wfdc via Python-ideas > > python-ideas@python.org wrote: > > > 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? > > It's very hard to answer a question that is fundamentally based on a > > misunderstanding of namedtuples. Since a namedtuple is supposed to > > be both a sequence and a record, the names are part of the record > > interface, and the sequence is still part of that. Also, the field > > names don't have to be valid identifiers (although they usually will). > > But if it's a sequence of arbitrary length, then why is it a tuple at > > all? You assume that it has to be a tuple but not a namedtuple, but a > > namedtuple IS a tuple. > > Do you see why we've been asking you to SHOW YOUR CODE? > > I am done. I'm not going to further respond in this thread until there > > is some actual code to discuss. > > ChrisA > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/SAHYE2XVOAFBJ7UO5ZTECH4GVTEA5XKC/ > > 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/MY2EWIXDDU7CCO3ZLUCG4XFK3FNFO653/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
