[Python-Dev] Impact of Namedtuple on startup time

[Ethan Furman]

On 07/17/2017 02:26 PM, 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.  It’s also rather unPythonic if
 > you want to support default arguments when creating namedtuple instances.
 > Maybe as you say, a lot of the typical use cases for namedtuples could be
 > addressed by a better builtin, but I fear we’ll end up down the bikeshedding
 > hole for that.

My aenum library [1] has a metaclass-based NamedTuple that allows for default arguments as well as other goodies (which 
would probably not make it to the stdlib since they are mostly fluff).

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~Ethan~

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum