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Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	brett.cannon, christian.heimes, gvanrossum
Date	2008-01-13.20:19:13
SpamBayes Score	0.00117045
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Message-id	<bbaeab100801131219l3a3ff49bid07b2b7b78a4eaa9@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<478A4E24.5050704@cheimes.de>

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On Jan 13, 2008 9:45 AM, Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Christian Heimes added the comment: > > 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.

On Jan 13, 2008 9:45 AM, Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Christian Heimes added the comment:
>
> 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.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-13 20:19:15	brett.cannon	set	spambayes_score: 0.00117045 -> 0.00117045 recipients: + brett.cannon, gvanrossum, christian.heimes
2008-01-13 20:19:13	brett.cannon	link	issue1816 messages
2008-01-13 20:19:13	brett.cannon	create