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

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:51 AM Eric V. Smith 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?

-CHB