Attrs, Pydantic, or Python Data Classes?

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Data classes are a valuable tool in the Python programmer's toolkit. Despite their usefulness (I do like them a lot!), they do have limitations. In this video, I compare dataclasses with two alternative options, attrs and Pydantic, to help you decide which one to use in your code.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:34 Example explanation
4:20 Comparison
7:07 Attribute validation
11:26 Pros and cons dataclasses
13:00 Pros and cons attrs
14:14 Pros and cons Pydantic
15:58 Final thoughts
16:42 Outro

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