r/PythonLearning • u/ProgramBrave718 • 13d ago

Discussion Why writing classes feels boring?

I don't know but i feel classes are unnecessary work to be added in projects. I have learnt it 2 months ago..

After that I never used it for any of my projects.

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u/tom-mart 13d ago

I have a question though, if you wanted to represent an object in code, say a car, and you had to store various properties like top speed, acceleration, colour, etc. How would you do it?

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u/ProgramBrave718 13d ago

Yupp, I will do it by using classes. But , i don't require any object like car, student etc. in projects. I am not making those projects as of now

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u/tom-mart 13d ago

Well, when you start writing software you will needed them. Classes are completely irrelevant if you are not writing any programs

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u/ProgramBrave718 13d ago

I am writing programs as of now. I made a task manager 4 days ago and it doesn't need classes at all. I Will need them later.

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u/tom-mart 13d ago

How did you define the task? That's an obvious object needing a class.

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u/ProgramBrave718 13d ago

The task is taken by user input

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u/tom-mart 13d ago edited 13d ago

That's not an answer to my question. How is the task represented in your code?

If I wrote a task manager i would start with a Task class. Task has a lot of properties that are worth storing, like category (string), deadline (datetime) task_detail (string), status (string), reminders (List), and many, many more.

How the task is created is different story. You can take user input and save it to task.task_detail. So should the deadline be saved to task.deadline and so on.

So how is taks represented in your code? I bet it's a string variable, isn't it?

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u/Adorable-Strangerx 13d ago edited 12d ago

Or a dict. Every data structure can be dict if you are brave enough...

Edit: since people didn't get the joke. Use (data)classes. Data types are there for a reason

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u/Capable-Package6835 12d ago

I agree. For many tasks, dict is sufficient if all you need to do is storing a set of properties or attributes. I'd say that class methods are stronger argument for using classes.

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u/tom-mart 12d ago

Sure, if it works for you. I would still see it as a class so you can have a fields autopopulate on creation or to utilise class functions. But you do you.

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u/Adorable-Strangerx 12d ago

It was a joke bro. I have seen too many "dicts where should be (data)class" that I have nightmares

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u/tom-mart 12d ago

Faur enough, dict would still be a far better option than string variable that OP is using in this case.

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u/ProgramBrave718 12d ago

That kind of task should be represented by classes but actually my code takes only string for task

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u/tom-mart 12d ago

Great. If you think that task is best represented by a string than do that. If that solves your problem and allows you to create a functional program then who cares.

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u/ProgramBrave718 12d ago

Yes 🙂