__all__ = ['deque', 'defaultdict', 'NamedTuple'] from _collections import deque, defaultdict from operator import itemgetter as _itemgetter import sys as _sys def NamedTuple(typename, s, verbose=False): """Returns a new subclass of tuple with named fields. >>> Point = NamedTuple('Point', 'x y') >>> Point.__doc__ # docstring for the new class 'Point(x, y)' >>> p = Point(11, y=22) # instantiate with positional args or keywords >>> p[0] + p[1] # works just like the tuple (11, 22) 33 >>> x, y = p # unpacks just like a tuple >>> x, y (11, 22) >>> p.x + p.y # fields also accessable by name 33 >>> p # readable __repr__ with name=value style Point(x=11, y=22) >>> p.__replace__('x', 100) # __replace__() is like str.replace() but targets a named field Point(x=100, y=22) >>> d = dict(zip(p.__fields__, p)) # use __fields__ to make a dictionary >>> d['x'] 11 """ field_names = tuple(s.replace(',', ' ').split()) # names separated by spaces and/or commas if not ''.join((typename,) + field_names).replace('_', '').isalnum(): raise ValueError('Type names and field names can only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores') argtxt = repr(field_names).replace("'", "")[1:-1] # tuple repr without parens or quotes reprtxt = ', '.join('%s=%%r' % name for name in field_names) template = '''class %(typename)s(tuple): '%(typename)s(%(argtxt)s)' __slots__ = () __fields__ = %(field_names)r def __new__(cls, %(argtxt)s): return tuple.__new__(cls, (%(argtxt)s)) def __repr__(self): return '%(typename)s(%(reprtxt)s)' %% self def __replace__(self, field, value): 'Return a new %(typename)s object replacing one field with a new value' return %(typename)s(**dict(zip(%(field_names)r, self) + [(field, value)])) \n''' % locals() for i, name in enumerate(field_names): template += ' %s = property(itemgetter(%d))\n' % (name, i) if verbose: print template m = dict(itemgetter=_itemgetter) exec template in m result = m[typename] if hasattr(_sys, '_getframe'): result.__module__ = _sys._getframe(1).f_globals['__name__'] return result if __name__ == '__main__': # verify that instances can be pickled from cPickle import loads, dumps Point = NamedTuple('Point', 'x, y', True) p = Point(x=10, y=20) assert p == loads(dumps(p)) import doctest TestResults = NamedTuple('TestResults', 'failed attempted') print TestResults(*doctest.testmod())