classes vs dicts

[Heather Coppersmith]

On 6 May 2004 03:12:15 -0700,
charlvj at yahoo.com (Charlie) wrote:


> Say I want to write an address book program, what is the best
> way to define a person (and the like): create a class (as I
> would do in Java) or use a dictionary?

> I guess using dictionaries is fastest and easiest, but is this
> recommended?

In the end (and in the implementation), classes are just syntactic
sugar for dictionaries.

    object.attribute    is equiv. to    dictionary[ 'key' ]

"Faster" is probably not applicable unless you're doing thousands
of lookups (designing and coding times should be about the same).
"Easiest" is a matter of personal taste.

HTH,
Heather

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Heather Coppersmith
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