Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>> '--' not being allowed for a name has *nothing* to do with exec, and
>> everything to do with `--` not being a valid Python identifier.
>
> 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().
The whole point of named tuples is to be able to access the members
via attribute access as in "obj.attr". Things like "obj.--" are not
valid Python syntax, so you can't use "--" as the name of a namedtuple
field. Yes, you can do "getattr(obj, '--')" if you want, but it's quite
reasonable for namedtuple to refrain from catering to that sort of
perverse usage.
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