Make namedtuple accept kwargs

Question

If I have a class like:

class Person(object):
    def __init__(self, name, **kwargs):
        self.name = name

p = Person(name='joe', age=25) # age is ignored

Extra params are ignored. But if I have a namedtuple, I'll get `unexpected keyword argument:

from collections import namedtuple 

Person = namedtuple('Person', 'name')
p = Person(name='joe', age=25)

# Traceback (most recent call last):
#   File "python", line 1, in <module>
# TypeError: __new__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'age'

How can I make namedtuple accept kwargs so I can pass extra arguments safely?

Answer 1

It's not pretty:

p = Person(*(dict(name='joe', age=25)[k] for k in Person._fields))

Answer 2

The following session in the interpreter shows one possible solution to fixing your problem:

Python 3.5.0 (v3.5.0:374f501f4567, Sep 13 2015, 02:27:37) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> import collections
>>> class Person(collections.namedtuple('base', 'name')):
    __slots__ = ()
    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        for key in tuple(kwargs):
            if key not in cls._fields:
                del kwargs[key]
        return super().__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)


>>> p = Person(name='joe', age=25)
>>> p
Person(name='joe')
>>> 

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Alternative:

Since you rather have a simpler solution, you might find the next program more to your liking:

#! /usr/bin/env python3
import collections


def main():
    Person = namedtuple('Person', 'name')
    p = Person(name='joe', age=25)
    print(p)


def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
    base = collections.namedtuple('Base', field_names, verbose, rename)
    return type(typename, (base,), {
        '__slots__': (),
        '__new__': lambda cls, *args, **kwargs: base.__new__(cls, *args, **{
            key: value for key, value in kwargs.items()
            if key in base._fields})})


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()