Nathan Harmston a écrit : >> > Using a module global for this kind of data is usually a bad idea >> > (except eventually for run-once throw-away scripts, and even then...) >> > >> > Why is this a bad idea? >> >> Don't you have any idea ? > > Not really.....problem with access, using unneeded memory... I > grasping at straws here...
It makes generate_cound needlessly dependent on this global. It makes code harder to read. It makes code harder to test. It makes code harder to maintain. It makes code harder to reuse. Ok, I understand this is probably not going to be a problem in this particular case. But you asked how idiomatic your code was, and using globals where not necessary is not pythonic. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
