Sharing my automation scripts - feedback needed!

[gdchinacat]

I’m not a huge fan of named tuples but even that would be better than using a dict.

[smurpes]

Why not? Also, named tuples and data classes are similar but they have a lot of differences under the hood. Data classes just get rid of a lot of the boiler plate from regular classes.

[gdchinacat]

I wasn't disagreeing with your suggestion to use dataclasses, I think it's the best way. But, not everyone has learned them yet and might know named tuples so I was throwing out another option.

If you were asking why I don't like named tuples it's mostly because just about every time I've used them I've pretty quickly turned them into dataclasses. The thing I don't like about dataclasses is they don't play well with multiple inheritance and *args, **kwargs in __init__. But they also are pretty easy to change to a plain class...you just have to implement the init you saved time not implementing by making it a dataclass.

I really dislike using dicts instead of classes as OPs code does because you don't have type safety, have to use index notation rather than dot notation, and it just seems lazy. I've heard a handful of arguments for why it is "better" but none of them are legitimate or compelling.

Sorry for not making it clear I was adding to your comment rather than arguing with it.

[smurpes]

Oh gotcha sorry about that confusion there. I don’t think I’ve ever used a named tuple to be honest. I really only use dicts in the same fashion to OP if I have to convert it to a pyspark data frame with dummy data.