Mel <mwil...@the-wire.com> writes: > The immutability makes it easier to talk about the semantic meanings. > After you do > > event_timestamp = (2009, 06, 04, 05, 02, 03) > there's nothing that can happen to the tuple to invalidate > > (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) = event_timestamp > even though, as you say, there's nothing in the tuple to inform anybody > about the year, month, day, ... interpretation.
Also note that the stdlib ‘collections.namedtuple’ implementation <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple> essentially acknowledges this: the names are assigned in advance to index positions, tying a specific semantic meaning to each position. -- \ “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” | `\ —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
