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Programming

Named tuples are basically easy to create, lightweight object types. Named tuple instances can be referenced using object like variable deferencing or the standard tuple syntax. They can be used similarly to struct or other common record types, except that they are immutable. They were added in Python 2.6 and Python 3.0

Example #

from collections import namedtuple
Point = namedtuple('Point', 'x y')
pt1 = Point(1.0, 5.0)
pt2 = Point(2.5, 1.5)

# use tuple unpacking
x1, y1 = pt1

from math import sqrt
line_length = sqrt((pt1.x-pt2.x)**2 + (pt1.y-pt2.y)**2)

String finding

>>> a = 'The quick brown fox.'
>>> b = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'
>>> import difflib
>>> s = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, a, b)
>>> s.find_longest_match(0,len(a),0,len(b))
Match(a=0, b=0, size=19) # returns NamedTuple (new in v2.6)

References #

  1. http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
  2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2923420/what-is-a-simple-fuzzy-string-matching-algorithm-in-python

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