[foxylad]

I've become a heavy user of attrs, a small library that makes it easy to replace named tuples with a class that automatically includes initialisation and string representation functions.

So I'm very glad to see data classes bringing this to the core language.

[j88439h84]

Why? attrs does it already.

[steve_adams_86]

I'm not a python dev, but isn't less dependencies generally better? Or is attrs in Python natively already?

[j88439h84]

Attrs isn't in python natively. Not sure why less dependencies would be better though.

[steve_adams_86]

Every dependency is one more thing that can go wrong in my mind. I always drop them at every opportunity.

There are some exceptions. Like I really don't want form building to be in the standard library, and I don't want to write it myself.

It is nice when your package manager only takes a short manage to fetch and build though, and you can have more confidence that any mistakes will be your own (under your control) rather than someone else's.

[Spiritus]

One less thing to worry about. Adds to build time etc.

[Retra]

Python does a lot of things that libraries can do. "Batteries included" and whatnot.