On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 07:50:57PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to add support for explicit comparison of namedtuples > into testfixtures and hit a problem which lead me to read the source and > be sad. > > Rather than the mixin and class assembly in the function I expected to > find, I'm greeted by an exec of a string. > > Curious as to what lead to that implementation approach? What does it > buy that couldn't have been obtained by a mixin providing the functionality?
namedtuple started off as a recipe on ActiveState by Raymond Hettinger. Start here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/500261-named-tuples/?in=user-178123 -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
