# How to make a named tuple from a dictionary?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** dictionary, namedtuple\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-named-tuple-from-a-dictionary/10899 "2018-05-15T02:30:13Z")\
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map and collect are also not strictly necessary

```julia
namedtuple(x) = x
namedtuple(d::Dict) = (; (Symbol(k) => namedtuple(v) for (k,v) in d)...)

dind=Dict('A'=>1,'B'=>d,'C'=>3)
julia> namedtuple(dind)
(C = 3, A = 1, B = (c = 7, b = 6, a = 5))

```

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