[Python-ideas] Fwd: Anonymous namedtuples

[João Bernardo]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> 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.
>


Isn't that because the code for namedtuple is using exec instead a more
pythonic approach of metaclassing to make it "faster" but taking longer to
actually create the class?
http://bugs.python.org/issue3974

Maybe instead of changing namedtuple (which seems to be a taboo), there
could be a new anonymous type. Something built-in, with its own syntax
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