[Python-ideas] a new namedtuple

[Ethan Furman]

Guido has decreed that namedtuple shall be reimplemented with speed in mind.

I haven't timed it (I'm hoping somebody will volunteer to be the bench mark guru), I'll offer my NamedTuple 
implementation from my aenum [1] library.  It uses the same metaclass techniques as Enum, and offers doc string and 
default value support in the class-based form.

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~Ethan~


[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aenum/1.4.5