I've a 2,000 line and growing Python script that I'd like to break up into a modules--one class alone is currently over 500 lines. There is a large config.ini file involved (via ConfigParser), a fair number of passed and global variables as well as interaction with external programs such as MySQL (via MySQLdb), R (via Rpy) and gnuplot (via Gnuplot). Every time I have tried to break it up I end up with thorny name-space problems and have had to stitch it back together gain. Any pointers to materials on how best to modularize a script such as this would be appreciated. I'd like to end up with most of the code in modules and with just the main logic and housekeeping stuff in the main module.
John PS The script works fine as is and I am a very happy and productive camper with Python. I was a BASIC user for many years who switched to Python a year and a half ago rather than moving to .NET. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
