Christopher Reimer <christopher_rei...@icloud.com> writes: > If I'm using a dictionary to store variables for an object, and > accessing the variable values from dictionary via property decorators
Why not use the built-in ‘dict’ type? What does the new type do which isn't already better served by the built-in ‘dict’ type? (Note that “allow attribute-syntax access to dictionary items” does not qualify as “better”, IMO; it qualifies as “needlessly confusing distinct concepts”.) > I haven't seen a good pro/con discussion on the Internet for using one > over the other. I haven't seen a good pro/con discussion of the use case you're trying to address :-) -- \ “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance | `\ any day.” —Douglas Adams | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
