On Nov 3, 10:26 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:19:16 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:32:25 +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > > >> What's then the reason for adding named tuples if they are not > >> mutable...??? > > > Names are more descriptive than "magic numbers" as indices. See for > > example the "named tuple" returned by `os.stat()`. > > I have no objection to named tuples, but I've sometimes > missed having an equivalent to the Pascal record or C > struct: essentially a named mutable tuple.
+1. FWIW, I posted a recipe along these lines, following closely the functionality and implementation of namedtuple: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576555/ George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
