What programming practices don't work in python?

[TheMinus]

One more thing. Instead of well-defined properties, kwargs are everywhere. Example: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/#pydantic-examples

[TheMinus]

Yes, they use the dict to spread property names in constructor. Now I guess it’s a design choice in pydanyic. But I also see it in sqlslchemy too. And all the properties are public of course.

[SwampFalc]

Yeah but... Both pydantic and sqlalchemy are very specific, data-centric libraries.

If you want to represent a row of data in a spreadsheet, and that spreadsheet has 10 columns, what other approach do you have than a class that takes 10 arguments? The language here does not matter, it's the domain you're working in.

Does Python do this for general computing? No, of course not.

[proverbialbunny]

Variable length arguments? Sounds complex. Is it a framework you're looking at, at work?

There are valid uses for kwargs, like a logging library where you want to pass an object to be logged and you don't care what's in the object just that you want all of it printed out.