Re: Help With Better Design

2007-06-21 Thread apollonius2
On Jun 21, 12:22 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > (snip) > > >>> I would like to be able to get a good hold of the concept > >> state machines ? > > > Well both state machines and classes (objects). That may be a bit of a > > tall order to take on all at once but the

Re: Help With Better Design

2007-06-20 Thread apollonius2
> I've written code that looks a lot like that, and it's > a perfectly acceptable pattern IMHO. I don't bother > with the variables ON and OFF, though, as they add no > clarity to simply using 'ON' and 'OFF' for the states. > > [...] > The test portion of the code is actually longer than > the cl

Re: Help With Better Design

2007-06-19 Thread apollonius2
Thank you both for the insightful responses(I knew I came to the right place)! Steven -- The original inspiration was a "State Machine" your code re- write was what I was trying to accomplish but quickly got in way over my head. Thank you for expanding on that aspect of it. That will give me some

Help With Better Design

2007-06-19 Thread apollonius2
Greetings, I have been working on a little project today to help me better understand classes in Python (I really like Python). I am a self taught programmer and consider myself to fall in the "beginner" category for sure. It was initially sparked by reading about "state machines". This was my att