I'm a Software Engineer, from Portugal, a GitHub Star and a mentor at Black CodHer Bootcamp and "As Raparigas de Codigo" organization. Previously, I've been an admin at AnitaB.org Open Source.
Interesting point, Christopher! The example I used here is quite simple, for demonstration purposes. I wanted to keep this post short as a small introduction to this feature I found exciting :) I haven't used much of namedtuples yet. I would use this dataclass feature next time I feel like defining a class and avoid write the functions that come built-in with this annotation. I think the official documentation explains it well. I haven't look yet into performance gains, but I've seen there are some posts out there exploring more of the differences of namedtuples vs dataclasses.
Hi, I revisited this now, it seems the primary difference is dataclasses are mutable, while namedtuples are immutable. Aside from that, using dictionaries can work, but has roughly similar overhead to dataclasses; or at least the difference is negligible. It really comes down to whether you would want the ability to traverse all values/ have specific named attributes. Thanks for this article! ^_^
I'm a Software Engineer, from Portugal, a GitHub Star and a mentor at Black CodHer Bootcamp and "As Raparigas de Codigo" organization. Previously, I've been an admin at AnitaB.org Open Source.
Awesome Christopher! It makes much sense now, why this exists :)
Thank you so much for coming back and sharing your knowledge!
I just learned something new with this 🤗
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Interesting point, Christopher! The example I used here is quite simple, for demonstration purposes. I wanted to keep this post short as a small introduction to this feature I found exciting :) I haven't used much of namedtuples yet. I would use this dataclass feature next time I feel like defining a class and avoid write the functions that come built-in with this annotation. I think the official documentation explains it well. I haven't look yet into performance gains, but I've seen there are some posts out there exploring more of the differences of namedtuples vs dataclasses.
Hi, I revisited this now, it seems the primary difference is dataclasses are mutable, while namedtuples are immutable. Aside from that, using dictionaries can work, but has roughly similar overhead to dataclasses; or at least the difference is negligible. It really comes down to whether you would want the ability to traverse all values/ have specific named attributes. Thanks for this article! ^_^
Awesome Christopher! It makes much sense now, why this exists :)
Thank you so much for coming back and sharing your knowledge!
I just learned something new with this 🤗