• Sem@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    To be honest, for me it looks as very strange pattern… If one wants to have static container with functions, there is Enums or classes.

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      1 year ago

      It’s most useful when you’re using some data you already have as the dictionary key. A usecase i had for this was a binary file parser with 10 types of event markers. It was originally coded with if/elif, but performance was a pretty big consideration. Using the event markers as keys to a dictionary dispatch improved performance by about 15% and made the code significantly more readable.

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      With classes you needs getattr in python to achieve the same. This is cleaner for simple mappings