[Raymond Hettinger]
* Add a pure python named_tuple class to the collections module. I've been using the class for about a year and found that it greatly improves the usability of tuples as records. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500261
[Delaney, Timothy]
Hmm - possibilities. "record" definitely has greater connotations of heterogeneous elements than "tuple", which would put paid to the constant arguments that "a tuple is really just an immutable list".
No need to go so widely off-track. The idea is to have an efficient type that is directly substitutable for tuples but is a bit more self-descriptive. I like to have the doctest result cast at NamedTuple('TestResults failed attempted). The repr of that result looks like TestResult(failed=0, attempted=15) but is still accessible as a tuple and passes easily into other functions that expect a tuple. This sort of thing would be handly for things like os.stat(). http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500261 Raymond