[issue43923] Can't create generic NamedTuple as of py3.9

[Thomas Grainger]

Thomas Grainger <tagrain at gmail.com> added the comment:

The main advantage for my usecase is support for heterogeneous unpacking

On Sat, Mar 5, 2022, 6:04 PM Alex Waygood <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood at Gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I sense we'll have to agree to disagree on the usefulness of NamedTuples
> in the age of dataclasses :)
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> For me, I find the simplicity of the underlying idea behind namedtuples —
> "tuples with some properties bolted on" — very attractive. Yes, standard
> tuples are more performant, but it's great to have a tool in the arsenal
> that's essentially the same as a tuple (and is backwards-compatible with a
> tuple, for APIs that require a tuple), but can also, like dataclasses, be
> self-documenting. (You're right that DoneAndNotDoneFutures isn't a great
> example of this.)
>
> But I agree that this shouldn't be a priority if it's hard to accomplish;
> and there'll certainly be no complaints from me if energy is invested into
> making dataclasses faster.
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