On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Micah Carrick <mi...@greentackle.com> wrote: > I'm writing a little API that other people will use. There are up to 3 > "objects" that get passed around. One of them has some validation methods, > the other two simply store data and probably won't have any validation or > other methods. I only made them objects so that they are syntactically (is > that a word?) similar the other object rather than using dictionaries. I > figure it also better allows for changes in the future. > > Any thoughts on the pros/cons of using my own objects over a dictionary > objects?
Objects are definitely nicer to work with syntactically, and they help make your program's types more explicit. Rather than coding the "data holder" classes manually, consider using namedtuples instead: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
