[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > Some people like and use them often (like those ones coming from > Pascal-like languages, etc), some other people (like those coming > from C-like languages like Java) use them rarely and like classes > more. Python can choose to have just one way to solve such > problems, or to support both kinds of people. At the moment I think > it tries to please both kind of programmers.
If a function X needs a lot of data from the calling function Y, and it is called only from Y, I tend to implement it as an inner function of Y. I like classes a lot, but sometimes I simply want the easiest and cleanest solution. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list