Using namedtuple to create simple data objects in Python

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 23:30:00 +0000

Python standard library has a handy collection factory function called namedtuple, which can be used to assign names for each position in a tuple.

Named tuples behave otherwise like a normal tuples but each element has a name which can be used for retrieving the value just like with class objects.

from collections import namedtuple
Item = namedtuple("Item", ["name", "price", "quantity"])

Here we first import namedtuplefrom the collectionsmodule in the standard library and then create a named tuple called Itemwith the properties name, price and quantity.

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Using namedtuple to create simple data objects in Python