Re: [Tutor] constructing objects with one set of required options

2010-09-16 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Gregory, Matthew wrote: > Thanks for your reply.  I do understand all the different ways parameters can > be passed and realize that it's up to me to choose that signature.  But, > mostly, I wanted advice on how to make this signature as intuitive as > possible

Re: [Tutor] constructing objects with one set of required options

2010-09-16 Thread Gregory, Matthew
Hi James, James Mills wrote: > Rather than present you with what I think (subjective) > might be a "good solution", why don't you look up in the > python documentation how you define methods and > what you can do with them (parameters-wise). > > I'll summarize: > > def foo(self, a, b, c): >.

Re: [Tutor] constructing objects with one set of required options

2010-09-16 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Gregory, Matthew wrote: > Sorry for what is probably a poor subject line ... > > Generally, I'm trying to understand the best way to set up an object's > __init__ if there are some required parameters and other parameters that can > be specified in a number of wa

[Tutor] constructing objects with one set of required options

2010-09-16 Thread Gregory, Matthew
Sorry for what is probably a poor subject line ... Generally, I'm trying to understand the best way to set up an object's __init__ if there are some required parameters and other parameters that can be specified in a number of ways. As an example, I'm working on an envelope class that describe