On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > John O'Hagan a écrit : [...] > > > In other words, using the optparse object to hold as attributes > > everything needed by all the functions and methods in the module, and > > simply passing it holus bolus to all them and just pulling out what's > > actually needed inside the function, even adding new attributes or > > reassigning old ones along the way. > > Congratulations, you just reinvented globals and spaghetti-code. > [..] I'm aware of the potential for such problems, which is why I posted this question hoping for constructive advice. > > > My question is: is this horribly inefficient or otherwise wrong? > > The only thing I can say is that I hope I'll *never* have to maintain > your code.
Regards, John O'Hagan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
