https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cbdacc738a52a876aae5b74b4665d30a5f2... commit: cbdacc738a52a876aae5b74b4665d30a5f204766 branch: main author: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> committer: JelleZijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> date: 2023-09-29T23:32:35-07:00 summary: GH-101100: Fix reference warnings for ``namedtuple`` (#110113) files: M Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst M Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index f3912d42180bf..2f749dc40f7ee 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1850,8 +1850,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. special values and floating-point exceptions in a manner consistent with Annex 'G' of the C99 standard. -* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: :class:`namedtuple(typename, - fieldnames)` is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple +* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: ``namedtuple(typename, fieldnames)`` + is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple whose fields are accessible by name as well as index. For example:: >>> var_type = collections.namedtuple('variable', @@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. variable(id=1, name='amplitude', type='int', size=4) Several places in the standard library that returned tuples have - been modified to return :class:`namedtuple` instances. For example, + been modified to return :func:`namedtuple` instances. For example, the :meth:`Decimal.as_tuple` method now returns a named tuple with :attr:`sign`, :attr:`digits`, and :attr:`exponent` fields. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst index 3cbbbf7465032..0dc6e945719ec 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Implement :pep:`572` (assignment expressions). Patch by Emily Morehouse. .. nonce: voIdcp .. section: Core and Builtins -Speed up :class:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path +Speed up :func:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo. ..