# use operator.itemgetter if we're in 2.4, roll our own if we're in 2.3
try:
     from operator import itemgetter
except ImportError:
     def itemgetter(i):
         def getter(self): return self[i]
         return getter
def superTuple(typename, *attribute_names):
     " create and return a subclass of `tuple', with named attributes "
     # make the subclass with appropriate __new__ and __repr__ specials
     nargs = len(attribute_names)
     class supertup(tuple):
         __slots__ = ()         # save memory, we don't need per-instance dict
         def __new__(cls, *args):
             if len(args) != nargs:
                 raise TypeError, \
                       '%s takes exactly %d arguments (%d given)' % (
                     typename, nargs, len(args))
             return tuple.__new__(cls, args)
         def __repr__(self):
             return '%s(%s)' % (typename, ', '.join(map(repr, self)))
     # add a few key touches to our new subclass of `tuple'
     for index, attr_name in enumerate(attribute_names):
         setattr(supertup, attr_name, property(itemgetter(index)))
     supertup.__name__ = typename
     return supertup

Point = superTuple('Point', 'x', 'y')
p = Point(1,2)
print p
print p.x,p.y