Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
The only reason valid python identifiers come into it at all is
because they get pasted into a string where identifiers would go, and
that string is passed to exec().
So really, does it have "nothing" to do with exec? Or does your
argument eventually boil down to the use of exec?
As I recall the big reason for namedtuples was things like
sys.version_info[1] # behind door number one is...
being much more readable as
sys.version_info.minor
In other words, the tuple offsets are named -- hence, namedtuples. And
only valid identifiers will work.
So, no, it has nothing to do with 'exec', and everything to do with the
problem namedtuple was designed to solve.
~Ethan~
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