Python Language Tutorial => collections.namedtuple

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Define a new type Person using namedtuple like this:

Person = namedtuple('Person', ['age', 'height', 'name'])

The second argument is the list of attributes that the tuple will have. You can list these attributes also as either space or comma separated string:

Person = namedtuple('Person', 'age, height, name')

Person = namedtuple('Person', 'age height name')

Once defined, a named tuple can be instantiated by calling the object with the necessary parameters, e.g.:

dave = Person(30, 178, 'Dave')

Named arguments can also be used:

jack = Person(age=30, height=178, name='Jack S.')

Now you can access the attributes of the namedtuple:

print(jack.age)  # 30
print(jack.name)  # 'Jack S.'

The first argument to the namedtuple constructor (in our example 'Person') is the typename. It is typical to use the same word for the constructor and the typename, but they can be different:

Human = namedtuple('Person',  'age, height, name')
dave = Human(30, 178, 'Dave')
print(dave)  # yields: Person(age=30, height=178, name='Dave')

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