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Raymond Hettinger - Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generators - PyCon 2018

Raymond Hettinger explains Python's dataclasses module, showing the problem it solves and its key design decisions. He places it in a progression from tuples and dicts through named tuples and attrs.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as an approachable talk from a respected Python core developer on dataclasses.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
PyCon 2018
Topic
python dataclasses
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop: * Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: [LINK] * "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving: [LINK] * Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell: [LINK] * Git from the Ground Up: [LINK] From PyCon: * Beyond Unit Tests: …

    sn9 on Hacker News · 2018-12
    In Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
  • Raymond Hettinger's talks are great. I know it's not a succint blog post, but they are out there are watching a video is very approachable. Maybe [VIDEO] (Dataclasses! We could cheekily say Python gets better at something Rust does - dataclasses makes Python better at …

    kzrdude on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In Writing Pythonic Rust

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