On 07/17/2017 02:26 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
namedtuple is great and clever, but it’s also a bit clunky. It has a weird
> signature and requires a made up type name. It’s also rather unPythonic if > you want to support default arguments when creating namedtuple instances. > Maybe as you say, a lot of the typical use cases for namedtuples could be > addressed by a better builtin, but I fear we’ll end up down the bikeshedding > hole for that.
My aenum library [1] has a metaclass-based NamedTuple that allows for default arguments as well as other goodies (which would probably not make it to the stdlib since they are mostly fluff).
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