Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I had a global variable holding a count. One source Google found > >suggested that I wouldn't need the global if I used an object. So I > >created a Singleton class that now holds the former global as an > >instance attribute. Bye, bye, global. > > > >But later I thought about it. I cannot see a single advantage to the > >object approach. Am I missing something? Or was the original global a > >better, cleaner solution to the "I need a value I can read/write from > >several places" problem? > > The advantage of the global singleton is that it is a container; > therefore, its contents are mutable and you don't need to keep using the > ``global`` statement.
.... but you do keep having to use a longer reference to the value so what have you won? -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
