pass object or use self.object?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Tim Arnold a écrit :
> On Apr 8, 4:20 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
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>> There are two points here : the first is that we (that is, at least, you
>> and me) just don't know enough about the OP's project to tell whether
>> something should belong to the document or not. period. The second point
>> is that objects don't live in a splendid isolation, and it's perfectly
>> ok to have code outside an object's method working on the object.
>>
>> wrt/ these two points, your "document should encapsulate its own logic"
>> note seems a bit dogmatic (and not necessarily right) to me - hence my
>> answer.
> 
> The 'document' in this case is an lxml Elementtree, so I think it
> makes sense to have code outside the object.

Indeed. It's the only sensible thing to do here.