named tuples

[Skaperen]

Well, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the names of the fields from it directly, but they are always in the same order so you can build a dict easily as I showed in the previous post.

i really didn't understand your post.  i don't even understand this one.  you are saying it can't be done but your code does it easily?  to build a dict you need to get the keys.  how do you get the keys?   apparently we can't use vars(").  do you know of anything simpler than:

Output:
lt1/forums /home/forums 12> py3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> [x.split('=')[0] for x in repr(sys.version_info).split('(')[1].split(')')[0].split(', ')]
['major', 'minor', 'micro', 'releaselevel', 'serial']
>>>

which is the kind of "parsing" i was referring to.