[Attummm]

Python has made its rise as an antithesis to Java thinking. Classes used to be seen by some in the community as an anti-pattern. [0] The coding style used to focus on "Pythonic-ness," which meant using Python's expressiveness to write code in such a way that type information could be inferred without explicitly stating the type.

Most developers will carry their previous language paradigms into their new ones. But if types, DDD (Domain-Driven Design), and classes are what you're looking for, then Python isn't the best fit. Python doesn't have compiler features that work well with those paradigms, such as dead code removal/tree shaking. However, starting out with dictionaries and then moving over to dataclasses is a great strategy.[1] As a small note, it's kind of ironic that the statically typed language Go took inferred typing with their := operator, while there is now a movement in Python to write foo: str = "bar".

[0] https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0?si=pv0QQyM-iBrHuXUN

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html