On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:46:45AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
The same applies to the ntuple concept, expect there it's the fact that it's a *tuple* that conveys the "order matters" expectation.
That assumes there's a requirement that it be a tuple in the first place. I don't see that requirement in the use cases suggested here so far.
This is an excellent point. Perhaps we should just find a shorter name for SimpleNamespace and promote it as the solution. I'm not sure about other versions, but in Python 3.5 it will even save memory for small records: py> from types import SimpleNamespace py> spam = SimpleNamespace(flavour='up', charge='1/3') py> sys.getsizeof(spam) 24 py> from collections import namedtuple py> eggs = namedtuple('record', 'flavour charge')(charge='1/3', flavour='up') py> sys.getsizeof(eggs) 32 py> sys.getsizeof(('up', '1/3')) 32 -- Steve