On 17 May 2017 at 18:38, Stephan Houben
Hi Sven,
But even given that (and I am only speaking for my team), I haven't even seen a use-case for namedtuples in a year. Every time we considered it, people said: "please make it its own class for documentary purposes; this thing will tend to grow faster than we can imagine".
Using namedtuple doesn't stop the class from being its "own class". Typical use case:
class Foo(namedtuple("Foo", "bar "baz"), FooBase): "Foo is a very important class and you should totally use it."""
def grand_total(self): return self.bar + self.baz
And the right (modern) way to do this is from typing import NamedTuple class Foo(NamedTuple): """Foo is a very important class and you should totally use it. """ bar: int baz: int = 0 def grand_total(self): return self.bar + self.baz typing.NamedTuple supports docstrings, user-defined methods, and default values. -- Ivan