Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:11:42 -0700, Alex Martelli wrote a lot, with lots > of YELLING. > > Given the amount of SHOUTING in your post, and the fact that you feel so > strongly about the trivial question of the redundant use of the global > statement that you would "fail a student" who did it -- even if they did > everything else correctly, efficiently and elegantly -- it seems to me > that you are beyond rational discussion on this subject.
I, for one, appreciate a second voice suggesting that your (Steve's) vehement rejection of my technically correct and non-condemnatory post explaining that one use of global in the OP's code was superfluous. You said (in the previous post): > That's technically true, but declaring it with global makes the code > self-documenting and therefore easier to read. > > It's never _wrong_ to use the global statement, even if it is strictly > unnecessary for the Python compiler. Your post led a newbie to presume the extra use of global was "good style," while I think you'll find there is no such consensus. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
