From 6c94e6fb42a5318da5c736894ed0fa5d61f85e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:46:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #7796: Add link to Jan Kaliszewski's alternate
 constructor and ABC for named tuples.

---
 Doc/library/collections.rst | 11 +++++++++--
 Misc/ACKS                   |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index 5f677593dac..93f220e22fc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -775,8 +775,15 @@ and more efficient to use a simple class declaration:
 
 .. seealso::
 
-   `Named tuple recipe <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/500261/>`_
-   adapted for Python 2.4.
+   * `Named tuple recipe <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/500261/>`_
+     adapted for Python 2.4.
+
+   * `Recipe for named tuple abstract base class with a metaclass mix-in
+     <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577629-namedtupleabc-abstract-base-class-mix-in-for-named/>`_
+     by Jan Kaliszewski.  Besides providing an :term:`abstract base class` for
+     named tuples, it also supports an alternate :term:`metaclass`-based
+     constructor that is convenient for use cases where named tuples are being
+     subclassed.
 
 
 :class:`OrderedDict` objects
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 028f99a5085..a98bab7ed2d 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ Tamito Kajiyama
 Peter van Kampen
 Rafe Kaplan
 Jacob Kaplan-Moss
+Jan Kaliszewski
 Arkady Koplyarov
 Lou Kates
 Hiroaki Kawai