On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:24:26 -0700 Catherine M Moroney <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hello, > > Pardon me for not using the proper Python language terms, but I hope > that people can still understand the question: > > The problem: I'm writing a large Python program and I have a bunch of > parameters (whose values are static) that I want to make available to > the rest of the code with minimum overhead and duplicate processing. > > I think that the simplest way would be to create a file called > "Params.py" and then simply have statements like a = 1, b = 2, etc. > in there (no classes, no methods, just a bunch of declarations). But, > some of these static parameters have to be calculated rather than simply > hard-coded. > > I thought of creating a class called Params and having a bunch of > methods (decorated with @classmethod) that set/calculate the value of > all the parameters. Easy enough, but then I have to create a Params > object in every source file that uses these parameters, and that seems > wasteful. > > The actual scope of the problem is very small, so memory/cpu time is not > an issue. I'm just looking for the most pythonic/elegant way of doing this. > > What is the recommended way of passing a bunch of static (hard-coded and > calculated) parameters to various parts of the code? > > Thank you for any advice, > > Catherine You're 90% of the way there. You can just create params.py, fill it with statements that are either hard-coded or calculated as necessary, and import params from all over the rest of the program. Once the interpreter has imported it for the first time, everyone else just gets a link to the same instance of the module rather than running it all over and over again. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com Email address domain is currently out of order. See above to fix. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
