What are you using Python for? There are plenty of occations where I have made lists of dictionaries, e.g. when I have have large amounts of data that have to b

What are you using Python for? There are plenty of occations where I have made lists of dictionaries, e.g. when I have have large amounts of data that have to be outputted in a certain way, or if it's just logical to store dictionaries instead of instances of some custom class. No performance critical stuff though, and I've almost never used dict(), but still, calling this irrelevant for optimization is a bit harsh...