[Python-ideas] namedtuple with ordereddict

[Greg Ewing]

Jim J. Jewett wrote:
> is there any reason not to simply define it as a view on a dict, or at
> least as a limited proxy to one?

Some valuable characteristics of namedtuples as they are now:

* Instances are very lightweight
* Access by index is fast
* Can be used as a dict key

All of those would be lost if namedtuple became a dict view.

-- 
Greg