I've started making heavy use of the python dataclasses module and find it very useful. I especially like the flags that can be set on each field allowing for toggling of compare, init etc. I often find however that there is a field which I wish to omit from the asdict behaviour of the class. In some situations this may be possible with the dict_factory argument, but it sometimes happens that a field will cause the asdict function to raise an exception before it is omitted through use of the dict_factory. Can anyone else suggest a clean way to do this? Would it not be a useful additional flag to add to the dataclasses module? Continue reading...
