Re: [pygame] Classless Utilities?

[Kamilche <klachemin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kris Schnee wrote:
> I was just thinking of revising my music/sound functions, which are thin 
> wrappers for Pygame's. One thing that struck me: I'd put most of the 
> code into a JukeBox class, so that to play a sound you'd have to create 
> an instance of it and pass a reference to it to any other object that 
> needed to be able to play sounds. The point of making the class was to 
> centralize the jukebox's data, eg. the set of loaded sounds. Otherwise 
> I'd have bunch of functions and variables lying around in the music 
> file, not linked to a particular object. It seems like the right thing 
> to do, for the sake of having any part of my program able to play sound 
> effects, but kind of inelegant. Thoughts?
>
> Kris

Well, I did that with my loadsprite class, and ended up regretting it. 
Now I am forced to create dummy objects when I don't really need them, 
just to load the picture from the file. I wish I had left well enough 
alone and left it all as loose functions in the module.

I'll probably get around to changing it back, but what I really wish, is 
that Python modules WERE classes. That's all I wanted, really - a 
singleton that handled my data. The easiest way to get that in Python is 
to create a module.

--Kamilche