In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guyon Morée wrote: > I'm using simple classes as a container of named values and I'm > instantiating a lot of them in a very short time. > > i was wondering if there is any benefit in using dicts instead from a > performance/memory usage point of view?
If you really have a memory problem read the documentation about `__slots__`. But I would only consider this if `a lot of` is several 100k or millions of objects and the memory consumption really is a problem. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list