I'm writing a short (200 lines) script that has half-a-dozen parameter options, and using optionParser to process the options.
I try to write well-written procedural programmes with functions doing one thing well, and so on. The problem I'm getting is that, inevitably, the function that uses OptionParser ends up doing all the work. So, I have a brief 6-line main() that calls other functions, a setup(), a couple of ancillary functions, and a whopping doOptionParsing() that is over 100 lines long. doOptionParsing is doing all the work. I'm struggling to see how you could refactor the option parsing function. After all, it has to process the options, so it has to do all the setup for those options, and then process them. Does anyone have some sort of design pattern or standard template approach to doing option parsing? Or perhaps should I make optionParser variables global? Thanks, -- NickC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
