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

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
> > The proposal in your email seems incomplete
>
> The proposal does not say anything about type((x=1, y=2)).  I assume
> it will be the same as the type currently returned by namedtuple(?, 'x
> y'), but will these types be cached?


I suppose that the type should be immutable at least as long as field names
are the same, and the cache will occur on creation, in order to retain the
0 memory footprint.

Will type((x=1, y=2)) is type((x=3, y=4)) be True?.


Yes.


> Maybe type((x=1, y=2))(values) will work?
>

It's supposed to behave like a tuple or any other primitive type (list,
set, etc.), so yes.

> Regarding that spec, I think there's something missing: given a list (or
> tuple!) of values, how do you turn it into an 'ntuple'?

As already suggested, it probably makes sense to just reuse the dict syntax:

>>> dict([('a', 1), ('b', 2)])
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}
>>> ntuple([('a', 1), ('b', 2)])
(a=1, b=2)
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