Leo Breebaart wrote: > I have another question where I am not so much looking for a > solution but rather hoping to get some feedback on *which* > solutions people here consider good Pythonic ways to approach a > issue. > > The situation is this: I am writing fairly large console scripts > in Python. They have quite a few command-line options, which lead > to configuration variables that are needed all over the program > (e.g. the "--verbose" option alone is used by just about every > function and method).
<SNIP> One question I have is about the "--verbose" option. If you're doing something that is equivalent to logging to <file | console>, rather than continuing to pass the '--verbose' flag around, why not just use the built-in logging facility to manage the extra output? By having the different modules call logging( <level>, "<message">) throughout your programs, you only need to set the initial level from where you're checking options (whether from command line or configuration file) rather than having to pass the '--verbose' option around. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
