Adding docstrings to namedtuples?

Question

Is it possible to add a documentation string to a namedtuple in an easy manner?

I tried

from collections import namedtuple

Point = namedtuple(\"Poin         


        

Answer 1

No need to use a wrapper class as suggested by the accepted answer. Simply literally add a docstring:

from collections import namedtuple

Point = namedtuple("Point", ["x", "y"])
Point.__doc__="A point in 2D space"

This results in: (example using ipython3):

In [1]: Point?
Type:       type
String Form:
Docstring:  A point in 2D space

In [2]: 

Voilà!