On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 9:37 AM <pa...@lexyr.com> wrote: > > I was writing some code the other day, and it needed a quick-and-dirty data > structure definition for a set of related variables. I looked back at other > code to try be consistent, and found that I used dataclasses in some parts > and namedtuples in others. Both seemed the right thing to do at the time - > almost to the extent where I could change one way for the other and it would > still be the same code. > > You can easily get a dataclass represented as tuple and vice versa. The way > they work under the hood may be different, but the interfaces are very close. > Two different modules are doing practically the same thing! >
Interfaces ARE frequently very similar, and that's deliberate. We have tuples, lists, dicts, all using subscript notation. That's a good thing! And if your code sometimes uses one and sometimes uses the other, that seems like fairly good evidence that you find both of them useful. I think you just answered your own question :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FZWMK6ZLQUOQRSZCGTIASS4F4RTHEVFE/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
