> On 14 Nov 2022, at 22:49, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 09:38, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>>> On 14 Nov 2022, at 22:06, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: >>> >>> For parameter passing like your #2, I have packaged them into a dictionary >>> and passed that around. It was easy enough, and worked well. >>> >> I used to use a dict but having been burnt with issues now create a class. >> >> With a class you can add accessor methods that allow you to run debug code >> as values are changed. Also you can check that values being set are spelt >> correctly, have reasonable values etc. >> > > TBH you could add accessor methods to a dict just as easily
Its the dict interface that we found allowed for API abuse and lead to hard to fix bugs. Barry > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
