Your Data Structure Is Too Flexible
Python makes it easy to pass data around as dicts, nested JSON blobs, and “whatever the client sent”. That flexibility is useful when you own the shape. It gets expensive when the data crosses a trust boundary - an HTTP body, a webhook, a file from another team - and you treat it like it already matches your assumptions. You may already know Pydantic . This article is not a tour of fields and…
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