i use them in Pymazon to encapsulate program wide settings and enforce valid values for these settings. http://code.google.com/p/pymazon/source/browse/pymazon/settings.py
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant < jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > kj wrote: > >> What's the word on using "classes as namespaces"? E.g. >> >> class _cfg(object): >> spam = 1 >> jambon = 3 huevos = 2 >> >> breakfast = (_cfg.spam, _cfg.jambon, _cfg.huevos) >> >> >> Granted, this is not the "intended use" for classes, and therefore >> could be viewed as a misuse ("that's what dictionaries are for", >> etc.). But other than this somewhat academic objection[*], I really >> can see no problem with using classes in this way. >> >> > You cannot see the problem because there's no problem using classes as > namespaces. > > And yet, I've come across online murky warnings against using >> classes as "pseudo-namespaces". Is there some problem that I'm >> not seeing with this technique? >> >> ~K >> >> > import this > [snip] > Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! > > Modules and dictionaries are no more namespaces than classes. So any > container is potentially a namespace. > > JM > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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