#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 4-6: Collections module
Lecture: Namedtuples: more readable code
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Get Pythonic with a collections module. We are all familiar with dict, list, set, and tuple. The collections module
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adds a few other specialized ones that are very useful. Let's import the modules we're going to use. A namedtuple is a convenient way
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to define a class without methods. We all familiar with a normal tuple, which you can define with parenthesss, and one or more elements.
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The thing with the classic tuple, though, is that the order is not really meaningful, so if you print the user name and the user role,
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user index zero is a user index one, and you already notice that the indexing is not really saying that much. Is there a more readable way
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to define these kinds of tuples? And yes, you can use a namedtuple, so let's define one. User equals namedtuple, and you give it a name,
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and the fields or arguments it takes, so name and role. And let's create a user, with user and I give it a name
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Bob and role equals coder. The nice thing, then, is that you can access the entries like this, instead of indexing with zero, one, etc.
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So this is much more meaningful And to see that in a print statement. So, use namedtuples. It's very easy to set up,
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and it definitely makes your code more readable.