[Python-Dev] Impact of Namedtuple on startup time

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:03:26 +0200
Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting coincidence, just two days ago I have heard that a team at one
> large company completely abandoned namedtuple because of the creation time
> problem.
> 
> Concerning _source, why it is not possible to make it a property so that
> all the string formatting will happen on request, thus saving some time for
> users who doesn't need it?

It was proposed in https://bugs.python.org/issue19640 but rejected.

Regards

Antoine.