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		_Wintermute 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm switching to Python and actually liking it Dataclasses have the one massive benefit of not being an additional dependency.

ddejohn 6 months ago [–]

This. You also don't really need Pydantic unless you're de/serializing data from external sources. A dataclass is perfectly cromulent if you're just passing around data internally.

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