Class or Dictionary?

[Terry Reedy]

or Module;-?

On 2/11/2011 9:56 AM, Martin De Kauwe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a series of parameter values which i need to pass throughout my
> code (>100), in C I would use a structure for example. However in
> python it is not clear to me if it would be better to use a dictionary
> or build a class object? Personally I think accessing the values is
> neater (visually) with an object rather than a dictionary, e.g.

Dicts are, of course objects. That said, if all keys are identifier 
strings, then attribute access is nicer. A module is essentially a dict 
with all identifier keys, accessed as attributes.

mod.a is mod.__dict__['a']

Module are sometimes regarded as singleton data-only classes.
Just put 'import params' in every file that needs to read or write them.
The stdlib has at least a few modules that consist only of constants.
One example is tkinter.constants.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy