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Sometimes it is useful to have a data type similar to the Pascal "record" or C
-"struct", bundling together a few named data items. An empty class definition
-will do nicely::
+"struct", bundling together a few named data items. The idiomatic approach
+is to use :mod:`dataclasses` for this purpose::
- class Employee:
- pass
+ from dataclasses import dataclasses
- john = Employee() # Create an empty employee record
+ @dataclass
+ class Employee:
+ name: str
+ dept: str
+ salary: int
- # Fill the fields of the record
- john.name = 'John Doe'
- john.dept = 'computer lab'
- john.salary = 1000
+ john = Employee("john", "computer lab", 1000)
+
+ >>> john.dept
+ "computer lab"
+ >>> john.salary
+ 1000
A piece of Python code that expects a particular abstract data type can often be
passed a class that emulates the methods of that data type instead. For
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