On 4/16/2012 8:01 AM, Alan Ristow wrote:
Hi all,
I have defined a class that includes a number of helper methods that
are useful to me, but pretty redundant. Something like so, where I
maintain a list of tuples:
class A(object):
def __init__(self):
self.listing = []
# This method does the work.
def append_text(self, text, style):
self.listing.append((text, style))
The order of parameters and tuples seems backwards to me. Suppose you
want to sort the list by style ;-). But maybe you never will. 'append'
as the method name would seem sufficient to me.
# The rest of the methods are just helpers.
def append_paragraph(self, text):
self.append_text(text, 'Paragraph')
def append_header(self, text):
self.append_text(text, 'Header')
def append_title(self, text):
self.append_title(text, 'Title')
obj = A()
obj.append_title('On Learning Something New About Python')
obj.append_header('A Question Is Posed')
obj.append_paragraph('Where is lorem ipsum when you need it?')
I would try a different approach:
T = 'Title'
H = 'Header'
P = 'Paragragh'
Then dump all the reverse-curried helpers.
obj.append(T, 'On Learning Something New About Python')
obj.append(H, 'A Question Is Posed')
obj.append(P, 'Where is lorem ipsum when you need it?')
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Terry Jan Reedy
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