On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote: > >> I certainly don't expect the signature to change, but why is using a >> metaclass out? The use (or not) of a metaclass /is/ an implementation >> detail. >> > > For me, the main benefit of using a metaclass would be that > it enables using normal class declaration syntax to define a > namedtuple. That's not just an implementation detail! Newer versions of the typing module do this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.NamedTuple (and indeed it's done with a metaclass). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)
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