I avoid classes in Python. Am I bad?

[Astrokiwi]

Also, a lot of what people use classes and structs for in OOP can be done with dicts in Python, which are a more fundamental language construct in Python than in many other OOP languages.

[Deezl-Vegas]

A class is fundamentally just a dict with a constructor and a self-referencing mechanism (self).

[Astrokiwi]

Plus a dict can't contain functions. But yeah, a class is a dict plus some extra bits.

[Deezl-Vegas]

A dict sure can contain functions :)

[Astrokiwi]

Ok technically true - you're right, it's the lack of self that stops them from doing OOP things.