f---ing typechecking

[Sergey Dorofeev]

<skip at pobox.com> wrote in message 
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> It's effectively a tuple with field names.  I don't know when the switch
> occurred (it's in 2.2, as far back as my built interpreter versions
> currently go), but back in the day os.stat used to return a plain old 
> tuple.

posix.stat_result is CLASS, not regular tuple.
classes is the only way in python to approximate records/structs (may be 
dict can be considered as record too, if we agree with strange syntaxis).
To consider tuples as struct, one must have a GREAT imagination, as tuples 
functionally are _arrays_, with only difference from lists as freezeness - 
the have NO filed names.

> I have no idea if the schizophrenic personality of tuples will improve 
> with
> drugs^H^H^H^H^H Python 3, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it did.

I think the best thing is to be more democratic when asked to add two arrays 
:)