On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, 18:05 Steve Jorgensen, <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 03:54, Steve Jorgensen stevec...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
> > > I've seen this thread, and also wondered why anyone could EVER want a
> > > dataclass that is an enum.  Nothing I've seen in the thread gives me
> any
> > > hint about that, really.
> > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 7:44 AM Barry Scott ba...@barrys-emacs.org
> wrote:
> > > On 9 Jul 2022, at 22:53, Steve Jorgensen stevec...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I don't think that dataclasses have the limited set of intended uses
> > > that you are interpreting them as having. To me, the fact that they
> can be
> > > frozen makes them a good fit with Enum.
> > > Please quote the email that you are replying to.
> > > It is usually considered a code smell to have a class that is two or
> more
> > > things.
> > > This seems to be what you are trying to do.
> > > How can one class be a set of fields and also the enum for one of its
> own
> > > fields?
> > > I do not understand why this is resonable.
> > > Barry
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> > > Sorry, I don't know how I communicated that I was trying to have one
> class be a set of fields and also the enum for one of its own fields.
> > > I'm really just wanting to have each member of the enum be an instance
> of a frozen dataclass. If an of the dataclass fields were of an enum type,
> then it would presumably not be for the same enum. In my example, none of
> the fields of the dataclass contains an enum. One contains a string, and
> the other contains an int.
> > > Just throwing an idea out there, but would it work better to have an
> > enum-namedtuple instead?
> > ChrisA
>
> The only benefit I can think of for namedtuple vs a dataclass is
> compactness in memory, but the number of members of an enum is typically
> very small. I think the extra flexibility of a dataclass makes more
> desirable for this purpose.
>

The ability to unpack a namedtuple as an iterable is considered to be a
great advantage the dataclass has over the named tuple because changing the
number of members is a backwards incompatible change for namedtuple.

No reason in principle why a frozen dataclass should be less memory
efficient than a namedtuple (?).

Michael


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