Comments on: Python drive-by http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2007/09/14/286 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Paddy3118 http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2007/09/14/286#comment-26587 Paddy3118 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:23:15 +0000 http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2007/09/14/286#comment-26587 This is one of the cases where a class would be better for storing your complex data structure. You would have the option of not pre-computing and freezing fields that depend on other fields like your title field. It could be day.date = "this is based on %(date)" And you could interpolate before fetching the value: return self.date % self.__dict__ A class would also give you a place to document your datastructure and allow you to add a method to check that it is well-formed. - Paddy. This is one of the cases where a class would be better for storing your complex data structure. You would have the option of not pre-computing and freezing fields that depend on other fields like your title field. It could be

day.date = “this is based on %(date)”

And you could interpolate before fetching the value:

return self.date % self.__dict__

A class would also give you a place to document your datastructure and allow you to add a method to check that it is well-formed.

- Paddy.

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