On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 6:40 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 12:11:07PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
Absolutely. However, this is not an "all Classes" question.
Isn't it? I thought this was a proposal to allow any class to partake in the dataclass autoassignment feature.
no -- it's about only a small part of that.
I don't think of dataclasses as "mutable namedtuples with defaults" at all. What do you think of them as?
I answered that in the next line, that you quote.
But do think they are for classes that are primarily about storing a defined set of data.
Ah, mutable named tuples, with or without defaults? :-)
well, no. - the key is that you can add other methods to them, and produce all sort of varyingly complex functionality. I have done that myself.
Or possibly records/structs.
nope, nope, and nope. But anyway, the rest of my post was the real point, and we're busy arguing semantics here. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython