On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:46 -0800, raymond.hettinger wrote: [...] > If your starting point is an existing iterable such as s=['Guido', > 'BDFL', 1], you have a couple of choices: p=Person(*s) or > p=Person._make(s). The latter form was put it to help avoid unpacking > and repacking the arguments.
It might not be obvious to the casual reader, but despite the leading underscore, _make is part of the public API for namedtuple: http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
