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

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:11 PM, 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.
>

Ironically the types.SimpleNamespace documentation says: "However, for a
structured record type use namedtuple() instead."

-gps
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