On 18/02/13 12:03, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 18 February 2013 11:47, John Reid <johnbaronr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was hoping namedtuples could be used as replacements for tuples in all >> instances. > namedtuples are not really intended to serves as tuples anywhere. They > are intended to provide lightweight, immutable, hashable objects with > *named* (rather than numbered) values. If they are not supposed to be tuples then calling them namedtuples and inheriting from tuple seems a little odd.
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