Do We Still Need Dataclasses? // PYDANTIC Tutorial

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Pydantic is a very useful package that makes dealing with data much easier, similar to what Python's built-in dataclasses do. Where Pydantic shines is in dealing with validating and sanitizing data. In this tutorial video, I show you how it works, and when to choose Pydantic over dataclasses in your code projects.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Explaining the example
1:54 Creating a Pydantic Basemodel
4:42 Adding field validation
9:47 Adding model-level validation
12:54 More possibilities by adding a Config class
14:03 Converting the model instances to a dictionary
14:38 Other things that Pydantic can do
15:38 So, are dataclasses obsolete?

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