structs in python

[Paul Rubin]

"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> writes:
> Unfortunately, this quickly becomes cumbersome when the code starts to make
> frequent references to tuple positions instead of member names.  For
> example, one would see code like "delta = (p1[0] - p2[0], p1[1] - p2[1])".
> Ideally, this code would read something more like "delta = (p1.x - p2.x,
> p1.y - p2.y)".
> 
> Clearly, the use of classes makes the code much more readable, but
> unfortunately the declarations necessary to instantiate a class is often
> too much of a hassle for small and infrequently used objects.

It doesn't take much:

   class frob: pass

   p1 = frob()
   p1.x = 3
   p1.y = 5

etc.  That's what I usually do.