Semi related: when I'm using a dict of known keys as some sort of simple object, I almost always reach for a dataclass (with slots=True, and kw_only=True) these

Semi related: when I'm using a dict of known keys as some sort of simple object, I almost always reach for a dataclass (with slots=True, and kw_only=True) these days. Has the added benefit that you can do stuff like foo = MyDataclass(*some_dict) and get runtime errors when the format has changed