all() is slow?

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course not. I do, however, think that it's conceivable that I'd
> want to key a namedtuple by an invalid identifier, and to do that,
> yes, I'd need to use getattr().

Care to give a real use case?  You could even go a step further and
use, say, arbitrary ints as names if you're willing to give up
getattr() and use "ob.__class__.__dict__[42].__get__(ob,
ob.__class__)" everywhere instead.  The fact that somebody might
conceivably want to do this doesn't make it a good idea, though.

I do find it a bit funny that you're criticizing a somewhat smelly
implementation detail by complaining that it doesn't support an
equally smelly feature.

Cheers,
Ian