[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r59947 - in python/trunk:Lib/test/test_structseq.py Misc/NEWS

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Hmm, is that really necessary? structseq has been in use for quite a
> while and this need hasn't come up -- it's been designed to be quite
> compatible with tuple *except* for isinstance checks, and that has
> worked well.

In addition, I would like to suggest that the current structseq usage
is changed to regular classes (perhaps with slots) in Python 3.
structseq was a compatibility mechanism for existing code that assumes
the things returned are tuples, when they are really objects with named
fields.

So for struct stat and struct tm in particular, I think the indexed
access should be removed in Python 3. Whether then structseq needs
to be preserved at all, I don't know.

Regards,
Martin