Is this optparse object abuse?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

John O'Hagan a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently found it convenient to do something like this:
> 
(snip)
> In other words, using the optparse object to hold as attributes everything 
> needed by all the functions and methods in the module, and simply passing it 
> holus bolus to all them and just pulling out what's actually needed inside 
> the function, even adding new attributes or reassigning old ones along the 
> way.

Congratulations, you just reinvented globals and spaghetti-code.

(snip)


> My question is: is this horribly inefficient or otherwise wrong?
> 

The only thing I can say is that I hope I'll *never* have to maintain 
your code.