<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's effectively a tuple with field names. I don't know when the switch > occurred (it's in 2.2, as far back as my built interpreter versions > currently go), but back in the day os.stat used to return a plain old > tuple.
posix.stat_result is CLASS, not regular tuple. classes is the only way in python to approximate records/structs (may be dict can be considered as record too, if we agree with strange syntaxis). To consider tuples as struct, one must have a GREAT imagination, as tuples functionally are _arrays_, with only difference from lists as freezeness - the have NO filed names. > I have no idea if the schizophrenic personality of tuples will improve > with > drugs^H^H^H^H^H Python 3, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it did. I think the best thing is to be more democratic when asked to add two arrays :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
