On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course not. I do, however, think that it's conceivable that I'd > want to key a namedtuple by an invalid identifier, and to do that, > yes, I'd need to use getattr().
Care to give a real use case? You could even go a step further and use, say, arbitrary ints as names if you're willing to give up getattr() and use "ob.__class__.__dict__[42].__get__(ob, ob.__class__)" everywhere instead. The fact that somebody might conceivably want to do this doesn't make it a good idea, though. I do find it a bit funny that you're criticizing a somewhat smelly implementation detail by complaining that it doesn't support an equally smelly feature. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
