[Python-Dev] What's a PyStructSequence ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> > A bug report on SF made me aware of an apparently new type in Python
> > called PyStructSequence. There are no docs on the type (at least
> > not in the usual places).
> >
> > Is it official yet ?
> 
> It will ship as part of Python 2.2, if that is what you are
> asking. os.stat is documented to return one of these (if you read it
> carefully).

Wouldn't it make sense to expose this object in Python,
e.g. by contructing it from a dictionary of string mappings ?

(The type constructor is not made available in bltinmodule.c.)

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