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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Use PyStructSequence for result() return value","articleBody":"The [result](http://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/ldap.html#ldap.LDAPObject.result)/[result2](http://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/ldap.html#ldap.LDAPObject.result2)/[result3](http://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/ldap.html#ldap.LDAPObject.result3)/[result4](http://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/ldap.html#ldap.LDAPObject.result4) API looks quite silly by today's standards, if you don't mind me saying.\r\n\r\nDo what [os.stat does](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.stat_result). `result()` should return an object that:\r\n- for backwards compatibility, acts like a tuple of the first two elements\r\n- has everything accessible as attributes.\r\n\r\nSuch a type can be defined at the C level using [Struct Sequence](https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/tuple.html#struct-sequence-objects).\r\nIn Python 2 this API is private; use a regular namedtuple subclass?\r\n\r\nDeprecate result2/result3/result4 (but keep them around indefinitely).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/encukou","@type":"Person","name":"encukou"},"datePublished":"2017-11-30T00:24:03.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/61/python-ldap/issues/61"}