[Python-ideas] namedlist() or Record type

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:50 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

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>             newattr[3] &= ~termios.ICANON
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> I want to get rid of magic number 3 without defining additional
> variables just for names. I thought that namedtuple can help here, but
> it is read-only and seems not serializeable.
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This indeed would be useful in the csv module as DictReader/DictWriter are
cute but the [""] are a bit extraneous. And it'd be a useful impromptu,
mutable replacement for namedtuple.

The only minor problem I foresee is when you have illegal python words as
headers (e.g. named.class or named.break) but then you can fall back to
[""]. But now you have more than one way to do it.

Yuval
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