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[Python-Dev] pydoc for named tuples is missing methods

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Tue Mar 15 03:02:30 CET 2011 
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> How would that work if you had a field named "replace"? I think
>> Raymond's current design is as good as it's going to get.
>
> 'as_dict' is an unlikely fieldname. 're_place' is too, but that just shift
> the '_' from '_replace'. No gain. I might prefer _asdict to _as_dict, but
> not enough to change.

Probably a stupid idea (sorry) but one could just
make asdict() and replace() public methods
with the caveat that developers not use those
as field names.

cheers
James

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