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Series: Classes
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Trey Hunner
5 min. read 4 min. video Python 3.8—3.12

Let's talk about how to optimize the memory usage and the attribute lookup time of our Python classes.

How are class attributes stored by default?

Here we have a class called Point in a points.py file:

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