On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 05:44 am, Rob Gaddi wrote: > That said, it sure feels (as someone who hasn't tried it) like there's a > straightforward namedtuple implementation that calls type() directly > rather than having to exec. I know that exec-gunshyness is overblown, > but is there a simple answer as to why it's necessary here?
It's very hard to write __new__ with a sensible parameter list without exec. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list