[issue7796] No way to find out if an object is an instance of a namedtuple

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I need to be able to catch all named tuples, I don't know in advance
> what instance of a namedtuple it might be, but I want my function to
> only accept named tuples. Is this unreasonable?

I don't know. Why exactly don't you want to accept something else?
Perhaps the user has their own namedtuple-like class. Or perhaps they're
fine with plain tuples.

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