[Python-Dev] pydoc for named tuples is missing methods

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 14 07:33:51 CET 2011


Tim Lesher wrote:

> Because named tuple prefixes a single underscore to its added method
> names (_asdict, _replace, and _make), those methods' docstrings are
> omitted from pydoc:

IMO these should be called __asdict__, __replace__ and
__make__. Users are perfectly entitled to make up their
own single-underscore names, so using a single underscore
is not sufficient to prevent name collisions.

-- 
Greg


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