Python: Overhead to using classes instead of dictionaries?

This is highly unlikely to be the bottleneck in your application, so worrying about the performance is probably a waste of time. However, if this is the bottleneck or you just have some time on your hands, look into using a namedtuple . It combines the immutability and low memory footprint of a tuple with the nice syntax of class attributes.

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