[Python-ideas] Re: Right way to dataclass -> dict conversion.

On 12/31/2020 3:18 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:51 AM Eric V. Smith mailto:eric@trueblade.com> wrote:

I'd suggest you just write your own function to do this. I consider adding dataclasses.asdict and .astuple to be mistakes.

I agree there -- if you want something that can be used like this -- use a dict in the first place :-)

Eric: what do you think about adding a "shallow" (or "deep") flag to dataclasses.asdict()  that would then upack only the top-level dataclass?

I'm not opposed to it. Since I can't make asdict/astuple go away, I might as well make them more useful. Eric