Namespace pollution

[Gerrit Holl]

Dirk-Ulrich Heise wrote on 949329139:
> In the recent whitespace war,
> some people said "Python is such an expressive
> language, you need only short functions.", "don't indent
> too much, that's bad style", even Linus Thorvalds was
> quoted (who likes 1 TAB = 8 spaces indentation to not
> lose control)...
> 
> I've got one problem with all this stuff:
> I end up with dozens of helper functions that are
> called exactly one time. They pollute the namespaces
> of the module or class they're defined in. I hate polluted
> namespaces.
> 
> How do others cope with this problem (that does not only
> apply to Python)?

Nest functions.

If you have a function X only used in _one_ other function Y, move the
function definition X to Y.

regards,
Gerrit.

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