Am 27.01.2009 um 18:36 schrieb Vernon Cole:
Charlie: In my experience, which goes back 35 years, constants like this are pretty much what the word implies -- constant. They are used to communicate between two software packages which were made by different people on different machines using different languages. If the value of the "magic number" where to change, both parties would have to rewrite their interface code. Therefore, in practice, these codes once defined will never change, so you should not have any trouble if you just hard code the number into your program. It is a good practice to define it as a named object for documentation purposes, so the next guy who reads your program (or yourself five years later) can understand what the number means in the interface.
Thanks very much for the advice, Vernon. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 GSM: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
