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

[Juancarlo Añez]

> So the only thing being ruled out is the dedicated syntax option,
> since it doesn't let us do anything that a new builtin can't do, it's
> harder to find help on (as compared to "help(ntuple)" or searching
> online for "python ntuple"), and it can't be readily backported to
> Python 3.6 as part of a third party library (you can't easily backport
> it any further than that regardless, since you'd be missing the
> order-preservation guarantee for the keyword arguments passed to the
> builtin).
>

If an important revamp of namedtuple will happen (actually, "easy and
friendly immutable structures"), I'd suggest that the new syntax is not
discarded upfront, but rather be left as a final decision, after all the
other forces are resolved.

FWIW, there's another development thread about "easy class declarations
(with typining)". From MHPOV, the threads are different enough to remain
separate.

Cheers!

-- 
Juancarlo *Añez*
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