Dictionaries as a standard

[MelihDarcanxyz]

Dealing with and building named tuples are harder than dealing with dictionaries. So here I propose using dictionaries instead of them. What do you think? Were there some reasons to use named tuples in the first place? If so, why? Let's discuss that.

Edit: Just remembered something, while we can alter and manipulate dictinary throughout the runtime, named tuples are static. This, especially, makes them hard to deal with.

[deeenes]

Hello,

Dicts and tuples are both fundamental data structures in Python, but very different in purpose, each has its own applications. Dicts have 3-4x larger memory footprint and more expensive to create and access. Hence whenever it's possible, better to opt for tuples. I don't think we can make a general decision about using dicts instead of tuples, instead if you can point to specific cases and argue why tuples mean a large disadvantage there, we could discuss those.

In addition, just to remind of some further advantages of tuples:

• Immutability: as you mentioned dicts are mutable, hence poorly designed code can alter them in obscure ways
• Hashability: tuples are most often hashable, that means they can be used as dict keys or elements of sets, records can be compared easily and no need to care about duplicates