[Python-ideas] A mutable alternative to namedtuple: recordarray -> recordclass:

[Zaur Shibzukhov]

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*Zaur Shibzukhov*


2015-03-27 16:17 GMT+03:00 Zaur Shibzukhov <szport at gmail.com>:

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> *Zaur Shibzukhov*
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> 2015-03-27 7:40 GMT+03:00 Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com>:
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>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 21:26, Zaur Shibzukhov <szport at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 2015-03-27 7:08 GMT+03:00 Joonas Liik <liik.joonas at gmail.com>:
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>>> namedlist perhaps? :)
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>>> if you want:"namedtuple, but mutable. " then namedlist seems like the
>>> obvious alternative..
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>> The name 'namedlist' is already used in
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/namedlist, 'mutabletuple' -- too in
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mutabletuple.
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>> If you're trying to provide the same concept, why use a completely
>> unrelated name? That's like saying 'I want an ordered set, but there's
>> already an "orderedset" on PyPI so I went with "sortedsequence"'.
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>> The name recordarray is means that it 1) array of objects and 2) record
>> with access to fields by attributes.
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>> But how is being "an array of objects" any different from what a tuple,
>> list, array.array, bytearray, bytes, str, etc. already are? What's
>> specifically array-like about this type as opposed to all of those? And
>> what's specifically record-like about your type compared to namedtuple,
>> Struct, or SimpleNamespace?
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> I am inclined to the fact that it's better to rename `objectarray` to
> 'mutabletuple' in order to be explicit about what is that.
> 'recordarray' is a factory function that make exactly the same as
> 'namedtuple' factory does (except that it create subclass of 'mutabletuple'
> and make '_replace' to update the 'self', not make a copy). So may be it's
> better to call it as 'record' or 'recordtype', or even 'recordfactory'?
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After consideration of all arguments recordarray project was renamed tand
moved to recordclass <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/recordclass>.
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