[Python-ideas] Anonymous namedtuples

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Apr 19 08:06:28 EDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:25:07AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

> Possibly the docs for namedtuple should refer the user to
> SimpleNamespace as an alternative if "being a tuple subclass" isn't an
> important requirement. Or possibly SimpleNamespace should be in the
> collections module (alongside namedtuple) rather than in the types
> module?

+1 

I'm repeatedly surprised that SimpleNamespace isn't in collections.

> The issue may simply be that SimpleNamespace isn't as discoverable as
> it should be?

This.



-- 
Steve


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