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

[Eric Smith]

On 3/14/2011 8:44 PM, James Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM, R. David Murray<rdmurray at bitdance.com>  wrote:
>> But directly calling a __xxx__ method in Python is a very
>> unusual thing to do.  It would be extremely odd to have that
>> be the expected way to call a method on a class.
>
> Can't namedtuple be improved to support the named fields _and_
> have as_dict() and replace() without leading underscores ?

How would that work if you had a field named "replace"? I think 
Raymond's current design is as good as it's going to get.

Eric.