[Stuart]

29/10/2020 at 11:52 am

Hi all,

A pupil of mine is working on a software project that integrates with a database. He wants to use the “dictionary” data structure in Python.

Is this allowed?

The documentation says “Object-oriented programming with an array of objects” or “Procedural programming with a 2D array or an array of records”.

Also, when the the procedural programming sentence says “an array of records” is it meaning “2D array of records”?

Stuart.

[Mark Hay]

29/10/2020 at 1:56 pm

Hi Stuart, I would say it is allowed as a dictionary(associative array) is one way of Python simulating a record. Would assume he is reading the each result from queries into a record and having an array of these.

I personally use dataclasses but is the same operations.