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When I recently used python, after a long absence, I was pleased to discover named tuples: https://pymotw.com/2/collections/namedtuple.html https://pymotw.com/2/collections/namedtuple.html They basically give you the light syntax you were looking for. Related, I was also very pleased to discover mypy for static type checking. I am convinced that it sped up development of my project by an order of magnitude or so. Especially since I was using the also new async/await syntax (something I was also very pleased to discover for my particular project, and it had nothing to do with the web). The use of async/await leads to quite elaborate types, with easily made mistakes that are very painful if only caught at runtime, instead of trivially at compile time. Together, named tuples and static type checking brought in some much missed aspects of C into python.