Eugene Toder eltoder at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 01:10:45 CET 2011

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> Although we do something similar with namedtuple (instead of using a
> dict), so it's not like we have a strict distinction.

Named tuple is a convenience to avoid creating boilerplate classes (or
resorting to use dict with well-known keys). Names in named tuple are
not data, only values. In dict, names are data too.

Eugene

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