The typing argument no longer holds. There are typed dicts where you specify field names and the respective key types. But in most cases you're still best off with just a dataclass. Bare classes shouldn't be the first thing you reach for when you want structure.
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The typing argument no longer holds. There are typed dicts where you specify field names and the respective key types. But in most cases you're still best off with just a dataclass. Bare classes shouldn't be the first thing you reach for when you want structure.
I agree dataclasses are a better alternative when you want a class that represents data :)
The only way to achieve this that I'm aware of is PEP 589: subclassing TypedDict. Which I believe negates the argument in the post.
I don't think using TypedDict to create a type hint is against the spirit of the post.
Although reading a lot of what has been written here, it seems people aren't really getting the spirit of the post in the first place.