Passing large number of parameters to a function in a pythonic way /u/sdfghjkl1234 Python Education

Hey all,

TIA

I am trying to write a library that interacts with a REST api that processes payments. I would like to one day release this project so others could use it easily.

I am trying to decide how to structure the parameters required for each type of transaction. Currently I have a client class that has functions like “process_card”. Only that the parameters for this are many; customer details, card details and transaction details (about 12-15 variables in total, most required).

def process_card(self,transactionAmount,transactionCurrency,......etc): 

process_card validates input, creates a hash then sends them off the api and returns the response.

Is this the most OOP or pythonic way to do this? Should I instead be passing through parameters as data structures or dictionaries to process_card like and having the validation inside the structs?

def process_card(self, customer_data, card_data, transaction_data):

Hey all,

TIA

I am trying to write a library that interacts with a REST api that processes payments. I would like to one day release this project so others could use it easily.

I am trying to decide how to structure the parameters required for each type of transaction. Currently I have a client class that has functions like “process_card”. Only that the parameters for this are many; customer details, card details and transaction details (about 12-15 variables in total, most required).

def process_card(self,transactionAmount,transactionCurrency,......etc): 

process_card validates input, creates a hash then sends them off the api and returns the response.

Is this the most OOP or pythonic way to do this? Should I instead be passing through parameters as data structures or dictionaries to process_card like and having the validation inside the structs?

def process_card(self, customer_data, card_data, transaction_data):