Il 20/10/2015 23:33, JonRob ha scritto:
Hello Luca, I very much appreciated your comments. And I understand the importance of "doing something right" (i.e. convention). This leads me to another question. Because I am interfacing with an I2C sensor I have many register definations to include (30 register addresses and 26 Variables to be red from some of those registers. In your comment you mentioned that convention is to declare variables (and constants?) in the construction (__ini__). I am concerned that the sheer number of varialbe / constants would make it difficult to read. In your opinion, what would be the best method to structure such code? Regards JonRob
Let's start from constants. Constants, in Python, simply don't exist (and IMHO this is one of the few lacks of Python). All you can do is to declare a variable and treat it as a constant: you never change it!
It doesn't make sense to put a constant declaration at instance level, declaring it in the __init__ part of a class. After all, a constant is an information you want to share. The choice is up to you as the project manager: if you think that your constant is deeply related to the class you're designing, declare it as a class variable; otherwise, declare it at global level (in this case, often I use a separate file dedicated to constant declaration).
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