In article <mailman.1469.1296409883.6505.python-l...@python.org>, Gerald Britton <gerald.brit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. You need to call this thing many times with different arguments, so > you wind up with: > > x = > some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value1) > y = > some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value2) > z = > some.deeply.nested.object.method(some.other.deeply.nested.object.value3) I would probably turn that into: object = some.deeply.nested.object object.method(object.value1) object.method(object.value2) object.method(object.value3) i.e. make the temporary variable have the exact same name as the last component of the deeply nested thing you're trying to refactor. If the scope of use is small and the meaning is obvious from context, sometimes I'll shorten the name, i.e. obj = some.deeply.nested.object or even o = some.deeply.nested.object but I tend to avoid doing that. I'd rather be a little more verbose in preference to being a little more cryptic.
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