[packetlost]

I would recommend using `dataclasses.dataclass` over namedtuple. Namedtuples are factories that generate objects with different identities every time you create one and will not behave like you expect when comparing them. With dataclasses you can type-annotate fields as well as generate various special functions just as args to `@dataclass` so you get better safety, immutable objects (when using `frozen=True`), `__eq__` generation, `asdict` to serialize complex objects (recursively!), and a bunch of other great stuff.

I come from a massive hard-realtime system codebase that's mostly in Python and there's a lot of moving parts and complex data types. Type hints, `typing.Protocol`, and `dataclass` are all godsends for having any sort of sane, human parseable structure to the code. Being able to navigate to type definitions with `gd`/ctrl + click is massively helpful.