[Python-ideas] socket module: plain stuples vs named tuples

[INADA Naoki]

>
> Would there be any benefit in making a C implementation available from
> Python?
>
> -CHB
>

Yes, at startup time point of view.

Current Python namedtuple implementation uses `eval`.
It means we can't cache bytecode in pyc files.

For example, importing functools is not so fast and
its because `_CacheInfo` namedtuple for `lru_cache`.

And structseq is faster than Python namedtuple too.

ref:
http://bugs.python.org/issue28638#msg282412

Regards,