Hi,
I have a command-line script in Python to get the correct salutation for
a user name in either English or German from a 'salutation server':
$ get_salutation alice
Dear Professor Müller
$ get_salutation alice -l de
Sehr geehrte Frau Professorin Müller
The hostname, port, user and password for the 'salutation server' can be
given as options on the command-line, but if omitted are read from a
configuration file. The program is implemented in two modules without
any classes:
main.py:
... parse command-line options, read config file ...
salutation = my_mailer.salutations.get_salutation(args.user,
args.lang,
args.host,
args.port,
args.user,
args.secret)
salutations.py
def get_salutation(uid, lang, host, port, user, secret):
...
I have another program that is intended to run as a cron job and send an
email to certain users. This is implemented as a number of modules
without any classes and will need to use the 'get_salutation' function
from the first module.
My question: What is the analogue to initialising an object via the
constructor for a module?
My understanding is that a module is a singleton of the class 'module'.
So do I just write a method which reads the config file, or is there
some more standardised way which corresponds to instantiating an object
via
my_object = MyClass()
in the case of a class.
Cheers,
Loris
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