"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Say you have a suite of functions, all of which are called by some main > function and each other, and all of which need to access a lot of the > same data. The best, most straightforward way to do it is to have the > common data be a local variable of the main function, and nest the > suite inside it. The other way to do it, passing around a common data > structure, add complexity and hurts performance.
The third way to do it is to make the thing a class. Make all the functions methods of the class, and all the data instance variables. You may well want to make the main function the __call__ method of the class. In an OO environment, this may be a better, more straightforward way than nesting fnctions. See <URL: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52549 > for an example of this. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
