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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-18 16:53:56 (GMT)
committerMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-18 16:53:56 (GMT)
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bpo-36320: Switch typing.NamedTuple from OrderedDict to regular dict (GH-12396)
Also, deprecate the *_field_types* attributes which duplicated the information in *\__annotations__*. https://bugs.python.org/issue36320
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@@ -510,6 +510,10 @@ Deprecated
(Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`9372`.)
+* The :class:`typing.NamedTuple` class has deprecated the ``_field_types``
+ attribute in favor of the ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same
+ information. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36320`.)
+
* :mod:`ast` classes ``Num``, ``Str``, ``Bytes``, ``NameConstant`` and
``Ellipsis`` are considered deprecated and will be removed in future Python
versions. :class:`~ast.Constant` should be used instead.