On Jan 13, 2008 9:45 AM, Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Christian Heimes added the comment:
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> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Can't you use a namedtuple?  Then printing it would show the names of
> > the flags...
>
> ... and increase the startup costs of Python by loading several
> additional modules. The collections module imports _collections,
> operator and keyword. I'd rather see a better repr function for the
> sequence types.

Can we make it a function so that it is lazy? That way you can still
use namedtuple but it is only imported when the function is called
instead of during sys' initialization.