General question about Python design goals

[Duncan Booth]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Yep -- "time tuples" have also become pseudo-tuples (each element can be
> accessed by name as well as by index) a while ago, and I believe there's
> one more example besides stats and times (but I can't recall which one).

Apart from time and os.stat all the uses seem to be restricted to Unix 
only: pwd, grp and resource modules all use StructSequence, also os.statvfs 
and spwd (new in 2.5). Thats from an svn checkout though so there may be 
fewer uses in released code.