namedlist perhaps? :)
if you want:"namedtuple, but mutable. " then namedlist seems like the obvious alternative..
But, as discussed earlier in the thread, a list isn't right, or at least isn't obviously right, because lists can change size, and what would it mean for a namedlist to, say, delete element 3?
And that's really the problem: Python's entire infrastructure is designed around things which are reshapable like lists, or immutable like tuples, and this doesn't fit either one.
The name "array" seems really unfortunate. It doesn't give you any clue that this thing is halfway between a tuple and a list. Also, we've already got a bytearray, array.array, and the NumPy array types, all of which hold homogeneous simple-value types and can be accessed as buffers. And bytearray and array.array are resizable. And np.ndarray--like a C array, in effect--returns views when sliced rather than copies. Just about everything this name implies is misleading.
And as for recordarray, that doesn't exactly scream "like a namedtuple, but with array instead of tuple".
Also, in the weeks this thing has been discussed, no one has yet come up with a use case where. Look at the motivating example, Point--do you think location[2] meaning the same thing as location.z is a good thing? That's neither easy nor common in C and its OO descendants, or SmallTalk and its, or most other languages, and I can't remember ever being bothered by that.
The best anyone has come up with is that it might be more space-efficient than a SimpleNamespace or a standard __slots__ class, for all those times when you really need a billion points and can afford to needlessly waste 140 bytes per point instead of 12, but can't afford to waste 188.