self-documenting code. They can be used wherever regular tuples are used, and
they add the ability to access fields by name instead of position index.
-.. function:: namedtuple(typename, fieldnames, [verbose])
+.. function:: namedtuple(typename, field_names, [verbose])
Returns a new tuple subclass named *typename*. The new subclass is used to
create tuple-like objects that have fields accessible by attribute lookup as
well as being indexable and iterable. Instances of the subclass also have a
- helpful docstring (with typename and fieldnames) and a helpful :meth:`__repr__`
+ helpful docstring (with typename and field_names) and a helpful :meth:`__repr__`
method which lists the tuple contents in a ``name=value`` format.
- The *fieldnames* are a single string with each fieldname separated by whitespace
- and/or commas, for example ``'x y'`` or ``'x, y'``. Alternatively, *fieldnames*
+ The *field_names* are a single string with each fieldname separated by whitespace
+ and/or commas, for example ``'x y'`` or ``'x, y'``. Alternatively, *field_names*
can be a sequence of strings such as ``['x', 'y']``.
Any valid Python identifier may be used for a fieldname except for names