On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> Okay, you're talking about 'struct' from the C language. That helps >> answer the question. > > Note that structs are mutable. >
Ah... :( That's a no go! >> In Python, the way to do that is with a dict. A class can be used, but >> is often overkill if one doesn't need customised behaviour. >> >>> The fact that python 2.6 has now named tuples is a breath of fresh >>> air! > > But isn't mutable, so it doesn't seem to be what you (Paulo) need. > What's then the reason for adding named tuples if they are not mutable...??? >> That works also, but a dict will be more broadly useful; and >> compatible with any Python version. > > And is mutable. > Even though I can use dicts where the keys are strings (as if it were the name of the field), it seems to heavy, since a structure doesn't need to be resizable (and dicts are) and it has constant time access (which depending on the implementation I would guess dicts don't have). Can someone please clarify? Cheers, Paulo > -- > Arnaud > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
