Style for modules with lots of constants

[Rob Williscroft]

Paul McGuire wrote in news:KN42h.561$Qn2.495 at tornado.texas.rr.com in
comp.lang.python: 

>>> opAssoc = Constants(object)
>>> opAssoc.RIGHT = 0
>>> opAssoc.LEFT = 1

>> This is nice, but you can cut down on some of the cruft:

>> Constants.LEFT = 1

> One man's cruft is another man's clarity.  

:-)

> The reason I used instances
> instead of just the Constants class was so that I could define a
> little more descriptive context for the constants, 

Sorry I don't know what you mean here, could I have an example ?

> rather than simply
> a shortcut for importing lots and lots of constant definitions.  I
> expect I will want to define some more constants for other parts of
> pyparsing, and the instance scoping helps organize them, that's all.

Again I'm struggling to see how using an instance is any different from
just using the class ?

Rob.
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