Isn't there a better way?

[T]

T wrote:
> > I don't know what both classes do [snip]
>
> foo basically gets values for verbose (a True or False) and index (an
> integer) from command line options, using
> optparse.OptionParser.add_option() and
> optparse.OptionParser.parse_args()
>
> I would like bar to access the values of verbose and index.  Is there
> another way?

Sorry... I meant to say:

"foo basically gets values for index (an integer) and output (a string)"