[IPython-User] IPython parallel and namedtuple

[John Reid]

On 18/02/13 20:28, MinRK wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry about this.  I've made a pull request
> <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/2951> against master that
> should fix it.
> 
> A patch for stable IPython is a bit messy.  You would have to
> monkeypatch IPython.zmq.serialize.serialize_object/unserialize_object to
> handle namedtuples specially.
> 
> The other (probably better) options in the meantime are:
> 
> use a trivial class instead of namedtuple:
> 
> class Result(object):
>     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>         for key, value in kwargs.items():
>             setattr(self, key, value)
> 
> r = Result(pid=os.getpid(), duration=time.time() - start)
> 
> or do the namedtuple wrapping on the Client side:
> 
> def task():
>     ...
>     return os.getpid(), time.time() - start
> 
> amr = view.map_async(task)
> for tup in amr:
>     r = helper.Result(tup)
> 
> 
> Neither of which is awesome, but thanks for the report, the fix should
> be in master shortly.


Thanks for that. If you're interested my question on the python language
newsgroup sparked some discussion about whether namedtuples should share
construction syntax with tuples:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/726849