__slots__?

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https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/472000/usage-of-slots

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https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1098662827496067072

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Makes essentially no difference but doesn't hurt to have.

import timeit
from nominally import Name

test_name = "Blidge, Dr. Janifev (Mucky) J. M.D. Junior"

stmt = """
name = Name("{test_name}")
d = dict(name)
s = str(name)
name.first
name.cleaned
"""

print(timeit.timeit(stmt=stmt, setup="from nominally import Name", number=10000))