On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:41 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: >> But most of the time you always have the same attributes in the same order >> (think of reading a CSV for example), and this would be just a normal tuple, >> but with custom names for the indexes. > > > You apparently live in a halcyon world of data cleanliness where CSV data is > so well behaved. > > In my world, I more typically deal with stuff like > > data1.csv: > -------------- > name,age,salaryK > John,39,50 > Sally,52,37 > > data2.csv: > -------------- > name,salaryK,age > Juan,47,31 > Siu,88,66 > > > I'm likely to define different namedtuples for dealing with this: > > NameSalAge = namedtuple('NSA','name salary age') > NameAgeSal = namedtuple('NAS','name age salary') > > Then later, indeed, I might ask: > > if employee1.salary == employee2.salary: ... > > And this would work even though I got the data from the different formats.
Then you want csv.DictReader and dictionary lookups. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/