What should Record classes return? Dictionaries or themselves?

[magnusviri]

Ok, I know what I keep finding odd about the Record class. Should it be returning a dictionary, or should it hold a reference to the dictionary? So instead of this:

records = cls().get() # returns a dict
pprint(records)
cls().put(records)

I think it needs to be like this.

records = cls() # returns a Record object
records.get() # records has a reference to the dict
pprint(records) # I don't know if this is possible
records.print() # this is possible I'm sure
records..put()