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help importing collections->namedtuple

I'm trying the following:

from collections import namedtuple

This results in the error:

InputRejected: Importing namedtuple from collections raised an ImportError. No modules or attributes with a similar name were found.

Any ideas?

2 responses

Hi Omar,

collections.namedtuple is not allowed on the platform because the default Cython implementation of namedtuple has security issues.

We have an open issue in our issue-tracking system concerning providing a secure replacement for collections.namedtuple, but we don't at this time have an ETA for when it will be resolved.

In the meantime, we recommend writing a simple class by hand to provide the namedtuple functionality you are looking for.

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