Problem of Readability of Python

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Licheng Fang wrote:

> struct nameval {
>     char * name;
>    int val;
> } a;
> 
> a.name = ...
> a.val = ...
> 
> becomes cryptic
> 
> a[0] = ...
> a[1] = ...

?!

(1)
a = {}
a["name"] = ...
a["val"] = ...

(2)
NAME = 0
VAL = 1
a=[]
a[NAME] = ...
a[VAL] = ...

> Python Tutorial says an empty class can be used to do this. But if
> namespaces are implemented as dicts, wouldn't it incur much
> overhead if one defines empty classes as such for some very
> frequently used data structures of the program?

Measure first, optimize later. How many million of instances and/or
accesses per second do you have?

Regards,


Björn

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