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Author	valorien
Recipients	giampaolo.rodola, pitrou, rhettinger, valorien
Date	2013-08-31.19:33:37
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@pitrou: Thank you for your answer. I agree they should not replace databases or files, but I think 255 is just way too lightweight. It feels unnatural to have this limitation for no specific reason. Recently, I've seen a lot of solutions that emulate the namedtuple functionality with some classes in order to workaround this issue, but they all feel "forced" and require some unsavory hacks. I think namedtuple is one the most useful structures in the language, and like tuples and dicts, shouldn't be limited by design.

@pitrou:
Thank you for your answer.
I agree they should not replace databases or files, but I think 255 is just way too lightweight. It feels unnatural to have this limitation for no specific reason. 

Recently, I've seen a lot of solutions that emulate the namedtuple functionality with some classes in order to workaround this issue, but they all feel "forced" and require some unsavory hacks.

I think namedtuple is one the most useful structures in the language, and like tuples and dicts, shouldn't be limited by design.

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2013-08-31 19:33:38	valorien	set	recipients: + valorien, rhettinger, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola
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