dataclasses — Easy Playground

Decorator for auto-generating class boilerplate (__init__, __repr__, etc.)

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from dataclasses import dataclass, field

@dataclass
class Point:
    x: float
    y: float

@dataclass
class Person:
    name: str
    age: int
    hobbies: list = field(default_factory=list)

p = Point(3.0, 4.0)
print(p)

person = Person("Alice", 30, ["reading", "coding"])
print(person)

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The dataclasses module is part of Python's standard library. Decorator for auto-generating class boilerplate (__init__, __repr__, etc.).

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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