On 1 Mar 2006 11:32:02 -0800 "Derek Basch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one has always bugged me. Is it better to just slap a > "self" in front of any variable that will be used by more > than one class method or should I pass around variable > between the methods?
My first reaction was that they should always be object properties -- that passing values between methods of the same object is always a bad idea. But on further reflection, I'm not sure that's really the rule I use, so here's a better attempt: Are the values in question properties of the object? If I make two calls to the object from unrelated processes, should those values be the same, or different for each caller? If they need to be different for each caller, then you might need to pass them around. If however, they are the same because it's the same object, then they ought to be expressed as properties of the object. It's funny, I've never actually had any doubts about which to use in practice, it always seems obvious, so it's hard to recall what my actual thought process is on the subject. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
