Guido has decreed that namedtuple shall be reimplemented with speed in mind.
I haven't timed it (I'm hoping somebody will volunteer to be the bench mark guru), I'll offer my NamedTuple implementation from my aenum [1] library. It uses the same metaclass techniques as Enum, and offers doc string and default value support in the class-based form.
-- ~Ethan~ [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum/1.4.5 _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/