🔒 Question about class methods vs functions

[tight sedge]

I'm creating a script for sole purpose of writing functions to be imported in other scripts for co workers, are there advantages to building them as methods in a class over just functions?

[obtuse ice]

@tight sedge

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[silk scroll]

do they require some common state?

ie. would there be any disadvantage to having them as free functions?

if not, stick to free functions

[tight sedge]

hmm well they are functions that pull data form data bases and some of them clean / do some mainpulations thats about it

sonwould you expand on what doy ou mean by common state

[silk scroll]

like if you had a class Car, you might have methods on it that manipulate the car's state, like .steer(), .brake() etc.

if there is no obvious common shared state for these functions to manipulate then there's no reason to put them in some class

[tight sedge]

more like

def pull data from data base (table):

def get_list_x
pull data from data base(table)
do x

I see

[tight sedge]

does it matter if the mainpulation is in continous time or steps?

[silk scroll]

no

[silk knot]

Look at Python's own standard library. Sometimes library modules contain functions, sometimes classes and sometimes both. They can even contain constants. So to answer your question: it depends how you are going to use what you import and also what purpose it will serve. As the author, you will need to choose the most appropriate content of your supporting module. I would say that usually the simplest is best.

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