On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Cong Ma <c...@mail.bnu.edu.cn> wrote: > I've thought of this too, but it turns out those functions are related to each > other very loosely. They do a lot of completely different things independently > and have just one common global variable to share. IMHO it would reduce the > readability of code because the role of this class is very unclear. Anyway, > "readability" is mostly a subjective matter and I think what you pointed out > is > a good idea in general.
So then the other commonly used pattern is a shared object between two other objects. class Env(object): def __init__(self): self.spam = None class A(object): def __init__(self, env): self.env = env def __call__(self): self.env.spam = "Eggs" class B(object): def __init__(self, env): self.env = env def __call__(self): self.env.spam = "Bacon" Very readable and makes perfect sense if it suits you. cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list