How to avoid excessive parameter passing?

Question

I am developing a medium size program in python spread across 5 modules. The program accepts command line arguments using OptionParser in the main module e.g. main.py. These opt

Answer 1

Maybe you should organize your code more into classes and objects? As I was writing this, Jimmy showed a class-instance based answer, so here is a pure class-based answer. This would be most useful if you only ever wanted a single behavior; if there is any chance at all you might want different defaults some of the time, you should use ordinary object-oriented programming in Python, i.e. pass around class instances with the property p set in the instance, not the class.

class Aclass(object):
    p = None
    @classmethod
    def init_p(cls, value):
        p = value
    @classmethod
    def meth1(cls):
        # some code
        res = cls.meth2()
        # some more code w/ res
    @classmethod
    def meth2(cls):
        # do something with p
        pass

from a import Aclass as ac

ac.init_p(some_command_line_argument_value)

ac.meth1()
ac.meth2()