[Python-Dev] pydoc for named tuples is missing methods

[Eric Smith]

On 03/14/2011 02:33 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Tim Lesher wrote:
>
>> Because named tuple prefixes a single underscore to its added method
>> names (_asdict, _replace, and _make), those methods' docstrings are
>> omitted from pydoc:
>
> IMO these should be called __asdict__, __replace__ and
> __make__. Users are perfectly entitled to make up their
> own single-underscore names, so using a single underscore
> is not sufficient to prevent name collisions.

namedtuple won't let you use names starting with an underscore, so the 
single underscore names are sufficient.

Eric.