>>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon Airporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gordon> I'm wondering if this is might be bad practice. Sometimes
Gordon> when I need to pass around several pieces of datum I will
Gordon> put them in a tuple, then when I need to use them in a
Gordon> receiving function I get them out with subscripts. The
Gordon> problem is that the subscript number is completely
Gordon> meaningless and I have to remember the order I used. As
Gordon> an alternative I was considering using a dummy class like
Gordon> this:
Gordon> class Dummy: pass
Gordon> Then when I need to pass some related data, Python lets me
Gordon> do this:
Gordon> prefill = Dummy() prefill.foreground = 'blue'
Gordon> #"foreground" is made up on the fly prefill.background =
Gordon> 'red' prefill.pattern = mypattern return prefill
Gordon> Now I can access the data later using meaningful names.
Gordon> Is this going to cause problems somehow? Should I rather
Gordon> go to the trouble of creating more substantial individual
Gordon> classes for every grouping of data I might need to pass
Gordon> (with __init__'s and default values and so on)? Should I
Gordon> just stick with subscripted groupings because of the
Gordon> overhead?
May fortune smile on Zoran Isailovski, whose Enum class is exactly
what you want:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413486
-Chris
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