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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
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special values and floating-point exceptions in a manner consistent
with Annex 'G' of the C99 standard.

* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: :class:`namedtuple(typename,
fieldnames)` is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple
* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: ``namedtuple(typename, fieldnames)``
is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple
whose fields are accessible by name as well as index. For example::

>>> var_type = collections.namedtuple('variable',
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variable(id=1, name='amplitude', type='int', size=4)

Several places in the standard library that returned tuples have
been modified to return :class:`namedtuple` instances. For example,
been modified to return :func:`namedtuple` instances. For example,
the :meth:`Decimal.as_tuple` method now returns a named tuple with
:attr:`sign`, :attr:`digits`, and :attr:`exponent` fields.

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
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.. nonce: voIdcp
.. section: Core and Builtins

Speed up :class:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path
Speed up :func:`namedtuple` attribute access by 1.6x using a C fast-path
for the name descriptors. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

..
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