best practice for passing values between functions in Python

Question

What is pythonic best practice for allowing one function to use another function\'s returned values? e.g. Is it better to call one function within another, or better that functi

Answer 1

I would argue that get_values is not a vital part of adding and should thus be a separate function. If it should be I would say:

class adding:

def get_values(self):
    self.x = input("input x")
    self.y = input("input y")
    self.z = input("input z")

def use_values(self):
    print self.x+self.y+self.z

if name == 'main':
    dave = adding()
    dave.get_values()
    dave.use_values()

is a more sound solution.