[Python-ideas] namedtuple literals [Was: RE a new namedtuple]

[Nick Coghlan]

On 22 July 2017 at 01:18, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Honestly I would like to declare the bare (x=1, y=0) proposal dead. Let's
> encourage the use of objects rather than tuples (named or otherwise) for
> most data exchanges. I know of a large codebase that uses dicts instead of
> objects, and it's a mess. I expect the bare ntuple to encourage the same
> chaos.

That sounds sensible to me - given ordered keyword arguments, anything
that bare syntax could do can be done with a new builtin instead, and
be inherently more self-documenting as a result.

Cheers,
Nick.

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