Leam Hall wrote: > I'm building a program that uses one of my own modules for a bunch of > formula defs and another module for the tkinter GUI stuff. There are > half a dozen input variables and about the same in calculated variables. > Is it better/cleaner to just build a global dict and have everything go > into it or pass multiple arguments to each function and have it return > the calculated value?
The latter. It makes the dependencies explicit to a reader of the function, it simplifies unit tests, allows it to reuse functions in a different context, and it is more likely to work in a multi-threaded environment. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
