Hi,
2017-06-13 22:13 GMT+02:00 Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de>:
> AFAIK the socket module returns plain tuples in Python3:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html
>
> Why not use named tuples?
For technical reasons: the socket module is mostly implemented in the
C language, and define a "named tuple" in C requires to implement a
"sequence" time which requires much more code than creating a tuple.
In short, create a tuple is as simple as Py_BuildValue("OO", item1, item2).
Creating a "sequence" type requires something like 50 lines of code,
maybe more, I don't know exactly.
Victor
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