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by fallingsquirrel 611 days ago
NamedTuples are great, but they let you do too much with the objects. You probably don't want users of your GitHubRepo class to be able to do things like `repo[1]` or `for foo in repo`. Dataclasses have more constrained semantics, so I reach for them by default. In my ideal world they would default to frozen=True, kw_only=True, slots=True, but even without those they're a big improvement.