I've written a PEP for what might be thought of as "mutable namedtuples
with defaults, but not inheriting tuple's behavior" (a mouthful, but it
sounded simpler when I first thought of it). It's heavily influenced by
the attrs project. It uses PEP 526 type annotations to define fields.
From the overview section:
@dataclass
class InventoryItem:
name: str
unit_price: float
quantity_on_hand: int = 0
def total_cost(self) -> float:
return self.unit_price * self.quantity_on_hand
Will automatically add these methods:
def __init__(self, name: str, unit_price: float, quantity_on_hand:
int = 0) -> None:
self.name = name
self.unit_price = unit_price
self.quantity_on_hand = quantity_on_hand
def __repr__(self):
return
f'InventoryItem(name={self.name!r},unit_price={self.unit_price!r},quantity_on_hand={self.quantity_on_hand!r})'
def __eq__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) ==
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
def __ne__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) !=
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
def __lt__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) <
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
def __le__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) <=
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
def __gt__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) >
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
def __ge__(self, other):
if other.__class__ is self.__class__:
return (self.name, self.unit_price, self.quantity_on_hand) >=
(other.name, other.unit_price, other.quantity_on_hand)
return NotImplemented
Data Classes saves you from writing and maintaining these functions.
The PEP is largely complete, but could use some filling out in places.
Comments welcome!
Eric.
P.S. I wrote this PEP when I was in my happy place.