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| author | Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> | 2016-04-19 18:17:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> | 2016-04-19 18:17:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 9a8d0d5c7d1ad3bfee57efce7860cded9790eee7 (patch) | |
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Mention types.SimpleNamespace in collections.namedtuple doc
Issue #26805.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index 728cd48..37d9e00 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -792,6 +792,11 @@ they add the ability to access fields by name instead of position index. Named tuple instances do not have per-instance dictionaries, so they are lightweight and require no more memory than regular tuples. + For simple uses, where the only requirement is to be able to refer to a set + of values by name using attribute-style access, the + :class:`types.SimpleNamespace` type can be a suitable alternative to using + a namedtuple. + .. versionchanged:: 3.1 Added support for *rename*. |