Make namedtuple accept kwargs

It's not pretty:

p = Person(*(dict(name='joe', age=25)[k] for k in Person._fields))

The following session in the interpreter shows one possible solution to fixing your problem:

Python 3.5.0 (v3.5.0:374f501f4567, Sep 13 2015, 02:27:37) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> import collections
>>> class Person(collections.namedtuple('base', 'name')):
    __slots__ = ()
    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        for key in tuple(kwargs):
            if key not in cls._fields:
                del kwargs[key]
        return super().__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)


>>> p = Person(name='joe', age=25)
>>> p
Person(name='joe')
>>> 

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Alternative:

Since you rather have a simpler solution, you might find the next program more to your liking:

#! /usr/bin/env python3
import collections


def main():
    Person = namedtuple('Person', 'name')
    p = Person(name='joe', age=25)
    print(p)


def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
    base = collections.namedtuple('Base', field_names, verbose, rename)
    return type(typename, (base,), {
        '__slots__': (),
        '__new__': lambda cls, *args, **kwargs: base.__new__(cls, *args, **{
            key: value for key, value in kwargs.items()
            if key in base._fields})})


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

It is possible to wrap the Person class constructor to ignore arguments which aren't defined as fields of the Person namedtuple:

from collections import namedtuple
Person = namedtuple('Person', 'name')

def make_person(*args, **kwargs):
    person_args = {}

    # process positional args
    if len(args) > len(Person._fields):
        msg = "Person() takes %d positional arguments but %d were given" % (len(Person._fields), len(args))
        raise TypeError(msg)
    for arg_name, arg_value in zip(Person._fields, args):
        person_args[arg_name] = arg_value

    # process keyword args
    for arg_name, arg_value in kwargs.items():
        try:
            i = Person._fields.index(arg_name)
        except ValueError:
            pass # ignore arguments not defined as Person fields
        else:
            if arg_name in person_args:
                msg = "make_person() got multiple values for argument " + repr(arg_name)
                raise TypeError(msg)
            person_args[arg_name] = arg_value

    if len(person_args) != len(Person._fields):
        msg = "Person() requires additional arguments: "
        msg += ", ".join([repr(x) for x in Person._fields if x not in person_args])
        raise TypeError(msg)
    return Person(*[person_args[x] for x in Person._fields])

Given the above:

>>> make_person('a')
Person(name='a')
>>> make_person('a', b='b')
Person(name='a')
>>> make_person('a', name='b')
TypeError: make_person() got multiple values for argument 'name'
>>> make_person(b='b')
TypeError: Person() requires additional arguments: 'name'
>>> make_person(1, 2)
TypeError: Person() takes 1 positional arguments but 2 were given