preferring [] or () in list of error codes?

[Ben Finney]

Mel <mwilson at the-wire.com> writes:

> The immutability makes it easier to talk about the semantic meanings.
> After you do
> >     event_timestamp = (2009, 06, 04, 05, 02, 03)
> there's nothing that can happen to the tuple to invalidate
> >     (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) = event_timestamp
> even though, as you say, there's nothing in the tuple to inform anybody 
> about the year, month, day, ... interpretation.

Also note that the stdlib ‘collections.namedtuple’ implementation
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple>
essentially acknowledges this: the names are assigned in advance to
index positions, tying a specific semantic meaning to each position.

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Ben Finney