What's the word on using "classes as namespaces"? E.g.
class _cfg(object): spam = 1 jambon = 3 huevos = 2 breakfast = (_cfg.spam, _cfg.jambon, _cfg.huevos) Granted, this is not the "intended use" for classes, and therefore could be viewed as a misuse ("that's what dictionaries are for", etc.). But other than this somewhat academic objection[*], I really can see no problem with using classes in this way. And yet, I've come across online murky warnings against using classes as "pseudo-namespaces". Is there some problem that I'm not seeing with this technique? ~K [*] My own subjective dislike for the widespread practice of using triple quotes to comment out code is formally similar to this one ("the 'intended use' for triple-quoting is not to comment out code", etc.). Here I find myself on the opposite side of the purist/pragmatic divide. Hmmm. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list