Users of namedtuple: do you use the _source attribute?
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 17 21:24:00 EDT 2017
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 05:44 am, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> That said, it sure feels (as someone who hasn't tried it) like there's a
> straightforward namedtuple implementation that calls type() directly
> rather than having to exec. I know that exec-gunshyness is overblown,
> but is there a simple answer as to why it's necessary here?
It's very hard to write __new__ with a sensible parameter list without exec.
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Steve
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