Code smells: too many parameters, too many attributes (was: pylint -- should I just ignore it sometimes?)

[Ben Finney]

Seebs <usenet-nospam at seebs.net> writes:

> I'm pretty much mystified by a claim that something with seven
> instance attributes is "too complicated".

It's a code smell. Many discrete attributes is a sign that the design
can be improved by combining related attributes into a complex type.

It's pretty much the same smell, with the same range of solutions, as
too many parameters for a function.

    <URL:http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TooManyParameters>
    <URL:http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/introduceParameterObject.html>

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