Josiah Carlson wrote: > However, I believe global was and is necessary for the > same reasons for globals in any other language.
Oddly, in Python, 'global' isn't actually necessary, since the module can always import itself and use attribute access. Clearly, though, Guido must have thought at the time that it was worth providing an alternative way. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiam! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
