[stock_toaster]

Isn't that a bit of a false dilemma though? Can you not have clean interfaces and separation of concerns without OO -- even with something as 'simple' as python namespaces and dicts?

[el_presidente]

Dicts are objects.

[stock_toaster]

That is an implementation detail due to python's object support. Dicts are a native type, that are hashmaps.

Unless you mean "object" as in "a thing"....

[Maro]

I think he means dicts combine data, state and functionality, expose a clean API and hide the details.