On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:13:19 -0400
Sean Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... We might have a disagreement on the target audience of the
> > multiprocessing module. multiprocessing isn't very high-level, I would
> > expect it to be used by experienced programmers who know how to mutate
> > a global variable from a lexical scope.
> >
>
> >>> It is one thing to MUTATE a global from a lexical scope. No gripes
> there. The specific concept I'm referencing here, is "DECLARING a global
> variable, from within a lexical scope". This is not as a intuitive for most
> programmers.
Well, you don't have to. You can bind it to None in the top-level
scope and then mutate it from the lexical scope:
my_resource = None
def do_work():
global my_resource
my_resource = ...
Regards
Antoine.
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