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I would like to have this as a feature in the language without having to import another "magic" module, something similar to case classes in Scala.

Let me dream :)

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It's hardly a magic module, collections is part of the Python standard library. https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html

It's kind of magical:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/collections/__ini...

If you look at the code for it you will weep. If only python had hygienic macros.

I would settle for better namedtuple syntax though.

I always thought it was left as-is to further discussions about how it should be, without having to overcome a crowd of people claiming it's good enough already.

Ruby's Struct is pretty nifty.

    Person = Struct.new :name, :age

    people = [
      Person.new('Alice', 42),
      Person.new('Bob',   23),
      Person.new('Carol', 30)
    ]

    people.sort_by(&:age).map(&:name)
    # => ["Bob", "Carol", "Alice"]

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