What Are Named Tuples in Python

An Overlooked Extension Data Type in Python

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
4 min readMay 4, 2021

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Introduction

Tuples are among the most fundamental and widely used data structures in Python. What most people don’t know — or usually forget about — is that the language comes with an extension type called Named Tuple that is built on top of the core tuple type.

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