Simon Hibbs wrote: > I'm wondering about whether to use objects in this way or dictionaries > for a program I'm writing at the moment. It seems to me that unless you > need some of the functionality supplied with dictionaries (len(a), > has_key, etc) then simple objects are a syntacticaly cleaner and more > natural way to express yourself. > > Any objctions to this, or pitfalls? > > Simon Hibbs
I'm not sure, but I think this should be the other way round: unless you need special behavior that dicts don't supply (methods) or you really want/need obj.attr notation, you're better off just using dicts, but Marco Wahl is right, if it really matters measure it. Peace, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list