[Python-Dev] Impact of Namedtuple on startup time

[Greg Ewing]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> namedtuple is great and clever, but it’s also a bit clunky.  It has a weird
> signature and requires a made up type name.

Maybe a metaclass could be used to make something
like this possible:


    class Foo(NamedTuple, fields = 'x,y,z'):
       ...

Then the name is explicit and you get to add methods
etc. if you want.

-- 
Greg