Named tuples

[Bengt Richter]

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