[Python-Dev] Impact of Namedtuple on startup time

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:43:19 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Cost of creating a namedtuple has been identified as a contributor to
> Python startup time.

Imprecise wording: that's the cost of creating a namedtuple *class*,
i.e. anytime someone writes `MyClass = namedtuple('MyClass', ...)`.

Regards

Antoine.