I learned from a coworker recently that namedtuple is a much lower memory usage ...

mattdeboard on Feb 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Records: Python library for making raw SQL queries...

I learned from a coworker recently that namedtuple is a much lower memory usage than a dictionary, so if you're dealing with lots and lots of data regularly, and lots of processes on a single machine, (i.e. memory is a concern) namedtuple might be a better choice.