Keeping a list of records with named fields that can be updated

[Peter Otten]

On 17/12/2022 20:45, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>     On Dec 15, 2022 10:21, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>
>       >>> from collections import namedtuple
>       >>> Row = namedtuple("Row", "foo bar baz")
>       >>> row = Row(1, 2, 3)
>       >>> row._replace(bar=42)
>       Row(foo=1, bar=42, baz=3)
>
>     ====
>     Ahh, I always thought these are undocumented methods, but: "In addition to
>     the methods inherited from tuples, named tuples support three additional
>     methods and two attributes. To prevent conflicts with field names, the
>     method and attribute names start with an underscore."
>     https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.somenamedtuple._make

I've read somewhere that Raymond Hettinger regrets the naming and now
would favour a trailing underscore to avoid name conflicts.