On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Brandon Mintern <bmintern@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a proposal to add a new built-in named struct:
One thing I forgot to mention... this is mainly intended to be used where it makes sense to quickly build an anonymous object. It would be considered bad practice to have more than one place in the code which creates a struct having the same fields; in that case a NamedTuple (or some equivalent) would be more appropriate. In other words, this would be used in a similar situation to that of lambda. You would not use lambda in several different places to define the same function; as soon as you start to write it a second time, you'd be much better to def the function and use it in both places. In the same way, creating the same struct in two places is a good indication that a NamedTuple or an actual class (possibly inheriting from struct and using a non-kwargs constructor) is more appropriate.