But most of the time you always have the same attributes in the same order (think of reading a CSV for example), and this would be just a normal tuple, but with custom names for the indexes.
You apparently live in a halcyon world of data cleanliness where CSV data is so well behaved. In my world, I more typically deal with stuff like data1.csv: -------------- name,age,salaryK John,39,50 Sally,52,37 data2.csv: -------------- name,salaryK,age Juan,47,31 Siu,88,66 I'm likely to define different namedtuples for dealing with this: NameSalAge = namedtuple('NSA','name salary age') NameAgeSal = namedtuple('NAS','name age salary') Then later, indeed, I might ask: if employee1.salary == employee2.salary: ... And this would work even though I got the data from the different formats. -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.