[Tutor] Question about large numbers of arguments

[Bob Gailer]

Dana Robinson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Suppose you have a situation where you have a large number of command-line
> options that you will parse with getopt.  You want to keep track of these
> as you move around in the code and do various things.
>
> Is it more Pythonic to:
>
> Have the functions take large numbers of parameters.
>
> or
>
> Create an options class to pass the options around.
>   
IMHO the above or a dictionary.
>
> I personally think the latter would look a lot cleaner once the number of
> options got up to around a half dozen, but I usually see the "large number
> of parameters" style in other people's code.  I suppose I can lessen some
> of the noise by using Python's rules for argument defaults, but I think
> that just adds to the confusion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dana Robinson
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