Is a factory pattern meaningless in Python?

Question

Since Python is a duck language, does it write factory classes that are meaningless in Python? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_method_pattern

Answer 1

Although there may be times when a factory template is not needed, where it may be required in other languages, there are still times when it would be advisable to use it - maybe this is just a way to make your API cleaner - for example, as a way to prevent code duplication, which decides which of the following subclasses to return.

From the Wikipedia article you linked:

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Answer 2

factory, Python factory: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple.

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