On 26/04/17 16:10, Nick Timkovich wrote:
I was wondering that if there are so many arguments to a function that it *looks* ugly, that it might just *be* ugly.
For one, too many required arguments to a function (constructor, whatever) is already strange. Binding them as attributes of the object, unmodified in a constructor also seems to be rare.
Yes, and perhaps it's more of a problem for me because of my possibly-atypical use of Python. The background is that what I find myself doing a lot of for private projects is importing data from databases into a structured collection of objects and then grouping and analyzing the data in different ways before graphing the results. So yes, I tend to have classes that accept their entire object state as parameters to the __init__ method (from the database values) and then any other methods in the class are generally to do with the subsequent analysis (including dunder methods for iteration, rendering and comparison etc). E.