What are __slots__ used for?

[Casey Hawthorne]

To save a a few bytes (10?) per instance instead of having a dict to
hold attributes one has slots!

Designed for having lots of instances (millions?) at the same time to
save space!

"Ric Da Force" <ric at next-level.com.au> wrote:

>I am a C# programmer and new to the language and I am trying to debug some 
>code which uses this feature.  Can anyone elaborate on what it is and how it 
>is used?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ric 
>

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Regards,
Casey