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

[Tal Einat]

Lie Ryan wrote:

> On 09/18/10 06:00, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > The good news is that long argument lists are uncommon.  They
> > probably only arise in cases with dynamically created functions and
> > classes.  Most people are unaffected.
>
> How about showing a Warning when trying to create a large namedtuple?
> The Warning contains a reference to a bug issue, and should describe
> that if they really, really need to have this limitation removed, then
> they should ask in the bug report. Just so that we don't complicate the
> code unnecessarily without a real usage.
>
> In Python, classes are largely syntax sugar for a dictionary anyway, if
> they needed such a large namedtuple, they should probably reconsider
> using dictionary or list or real classes instead.
>

+1 on removing the restriction, just because I find large namedtuples
useful.

I work with large tables of data and often use namedtuples for their
compactness. Python dictionaries have a large memory overhead compared to
tuples. This restriction could seriously hamper my future efforts to migrate
to Python 3.

- Tal Einat
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