If you're a fan of Pidentic or data classes, you'll definitely be interested in this episode.

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And some of the types in here might even be better for general purpose use than Python's native classes.

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442, recorded November 2, 2023.

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Jim. Hello. Hello. Welcome to Talk Python. It's awesome to have you here. Yeah. Thanks for

having me. Yeah, of course. I spoke to the Lightstar guys, you know, at Lightstar. Dev and had them on the

show. And I was talking about their DTOs, different types of objects.

They can pass around in their APIs and their web apps.

And like Fast API, they've got this concept where you kind of bind a type,

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