[Python-ideas] Fwd: Anonymous namedtuples

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fortunately it isn't hard to create a namedtuple factory:
>
> def NS(fields):
>     return namedtuple('anonymous', fields.split())
>
> or possibly:
>
> def NS(fields, *values):
>     return namedtuple('anonymous', fields.split())(*values)
>
> That cuts down the duplication some, but it's far from perfect.
>

Please don't recommend or spread this idiom!

Every call to namedtuple() creates a new class, which is a very expensive
operation. On my machine the simplest namedtuple call taks around 350 usec.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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