Named tuples

[Bryan]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:57:23 GMT, Bryan <belred1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>it should be possible to avoid a recusive problem:
>>
>>
>>>>>a = ('1', '2')
>>>>>a.__names__ = ('ONE', 'TWO')
> 
> I guess you are working with a patched version of python?
> 
>  >>> a = ('1', '2')
>  >>> a.__names__ = ('ONE', 'TWO')
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  TypeError: 'tuple' object has only read-only attributes (assign to .__names__)
> 
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter

we were discussing a feature that doesn't yet exist.  i believe it's possible to 
get around the recursion issue by only allowing the __names__ attribute to be 
accessed in the immediate explicitly called tuple.  i really do like the idea of 
named tuple elements.

bryan