[Python-ideas] namedtuple redesign goals

[Ethan Furman]

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On 07/24/2017 04:19 AM, Michel Desmoulin wrote:
> Le 24/07/2017 à 13:02, Ethan Furman a écrit :
>> On 07/23/2017 10:47 AM, Michel Desmoulin wrote:

>>> I'm not sure why everybody have such a grip on the type.
>>
>> If I understand the goal of "a new namedtuple" correctly, it is not to
>> come up with yet another namedtuple type -- it is to make the existing
>> collections.namedtuple a faster experience, and possibly add another way
>> to create such a thing.
>>
>> This means that the "replacement" namedtuple MUST be backwards
>> compatible with the existing collections.namedtuple, and keeping track
>> of type is one of the things it does:
>
> Is it ? Maybe we should check that, cause we may be arguing around a "nice to have" for nothing.

Um, yes, it is.  Did you not read the section you snipped? [1]

> How many people among those intereted by the proposal have a strong need for the type ?

Whether there is a strong need for it is largely irrelevant; it's there now, it needs to stay.  If we were to remove it 
there would need to be a strong need for what we gain and that it outweighs the broken backward compatibility commitment 
that we try very hard to maintain.

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~Ethan~

[1] My apologies for the first paragraph if this is a language translation issue and you were talking about the 
backwards compatibility and not the type tracking.