Don't optimize prematurely. Write whatever is cleaner, simpler and makes more sense. Such that if someone (or even yourself) looks at it 10 years from now they'll know exactly what is going on. As far as what is slower or what functionality you will use and what you won't -- well, if you won't use it then why worry about it and to find out if it is slower run a quick benchmark and you'll know... -NickV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Simon Hibbs: > > 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. > > I'd say the opposite. Classes contain a dict of their attributes, etc. > So if you don't need the functionality supplied by objects, then using > simpler dictionaries is better. (But in the end the choice has to be > made according to the specific situations). > > Bye, > bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
