Re:Macros in Python
by michaelhoffman on Monday May 13, 2013 @01:44PM
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The implementation of namedtuple is pretty crazy, but the interface is simple and doesn't change the language semantics.
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I'd argue that "fields as a string with spaces inside, or maybe a list of strings" is changing language semantics quite a bit.
We're used to namedtuples doing it like this now, but if namedtuples didn't exist, "fields as a list of strings with spaces inside, or maybe a list of strings" would definitely not make it past code review and probably get me yelled at by my future colleagues.