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

If "a" is a real object and not just a set of independent helper methods, you can create an "p" member variable in "a" and set it when you instantiate an "a" object. Then your main class will not need to pass "p" into meth1 and meth2 once "a" has been instantiated.