Existence of mutable named tuple in Python?

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There is a mutable alternative to collections.namedtuple – recordclass.
It can be installed from PyPI:

pip3 install recordclass

It has the same API and memory footprint as namedtuple and it supports assignments (It should be faster as well). For example:

from recordclass import recordclass

Point = recordclass('Point', 'x y')

>>> p = Point(1, 2)
>>> p
Point(x=1, y=2)
>>> print(p.x, p.y)
1 2
>>> p.x += 2; p.y += 3; print(p)
Point(x=3, y=5)

recordclass (since 0.5) support typehints:

from recordclass import recordclass, RecordClass

class Point(RecordClass):
   x: int
   y: int

>>> Point.__annotations__
{'x':int, 'y':int}
>>> p = Point(1, 2)
>>> p
Point(x=1, y=2)
>>> print(p.x, p.y)
1 2
>>> p.x += 2; p.y += 3; print(p)
Point(x=3, y=5)

There is a more complete example (it also includes performance comparisons).

Recordclass library now provides another variant — recordclass.make_dataclass factory function.

recordclass and make_dataclass can produce classes, whose instances occupy less memory than __slots__-based instances. This is can be important for the instances with attribute values, which has not intended to have reference cycles. It may help reduce memory usage if you need to create millions of instances. Here is an illustrative example.

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