Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jul 17 20:16:42 EDT 2017

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On Jul 17, 2017, at 18:27, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> namedtuple is great and clever, but it’s also a bit clunky.  It has a weird
>> signature and requires a made up type name.
> 
> Maybe a metaclass could be used to make something
> like this possible:
> 
> 
>   class Foo(NamedTuple, fields = 'x,y,z'):
>      ...
> 
> Then the name is explicit and you get to add methods
> etc. if you want.

Yes, I like how that reads.

-Barry

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