kj wrote: > In <mailman.1018.1269125666.23598.python-l...@python.org> Chris Rebert > <c...@rebertia.com> writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:15 PM, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >>> I need to create a class solely for the purpose of encapsulating >>> a large number of disparate data items. =C2=A0At the moment I have no >>> plans for any methods for this class other than the bazillion >>> accessors required to access these various instance variables. >>> (In case it matters, this class is meant to be a private helper >>> class internal to a module, and it won't be subclassed.) > >> If it's just a completely dumb struct-like class, you might consider >> something like: >> http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple > > Very cool. Thanks! The class I have in mind is *almost* that > dumb, but performance is a consideration in this case, which may > rule out namedtuple. But I'm glad to learn about it; there are > many places where I can put them to good use. > You may well find that namedtuple is faster than what you put together yourself, as the collections module is implemented in C.
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