[Python-ideas] A subclassing API for named tuples?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:11:38 -0800
Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> On 02/14/2013 05:19 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > A recurring suggestion for collections.namedtuple is that it would be
> > nice to be able to define them like this [...]
> 
> FWIW, I think namedtuple is overused.  Not that there's anything 
> innately wrong with namedtuple; it's just that I think too many types 
> are iterable which shouldn't be.  (Nobody unpacks the stat_result 
> anymore, that's like 1995 man.)  I suggest people use 
> types.SimpleNamespace unless iterability is specifically required.

There are tons of cases where tuple unpacking is a very convenient API.

Regards

Antoine.