18 Sep
2010
18 Sep
'10
9:23 a.m.
On 09/18/10 06:00, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
The good news is that long argument lists are uncommon. They probably only arise in cases with dynamically created functions and classes. Most people are unaffected.
How about showing a Warning when trying to create a large namedtuple? The Warning contains a reference to a bug issue, and should describe that if they really, really need to have this limitation removed, then they should ask in the bug report. Just so that we don't complicate the code unnecessarily without a real usage. In Python, classes are largely syntax sugar for a dictionary anyway, if they needed such a large namedtuple, they should probably reconsider using dictionary or list or real classes instead.