[Python-ideas] New 3.x restriction on number of keyword arguments

[Benjamin Peterson]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at ...> writes:

> 
> One of the use cases for named tuples is to have them be automatically created
from a SQL query or CSV header. 
> Sometimes (but not often), those can have a huge number of columns.  In Python
2.x, it worked just fine -- we
> had a test for a named tuple with 5000 fields.  In Python 3.x, there is a
SyntaxError when there are more than
> 255 fields.

I'm not sure why you think this is new. It's been true from at least 2.5 as far
as I can see.