On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:13:19 -0400 Sean Harrington <seanhar...@gmail.com> 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. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com