[Python-ideas] Proposal to add new built-in struct (was: Add kwargs to built-in function object)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 23 01:03:00 CEST 2008
Brandon Mintern wrote:
> This is a proposal to add a new built-in named struct:
>
> struct(**kwargs)
> Return a struct object which has the attributes given in kwargs.
I think I'd prefer 'record', to avoid any potential
confusion with the struct module, which does something
quite different.
Also, my Pascal background makes the term 'record'
seem more high-level and therefore Pythonic to me.
--
Greg
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