On 12/12/2011 04:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:13:33 +0100, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Using the same name for 2 different objects is a bad idea in general.
We have namespaces precisely so you don't need to care about making names
globally unique.
True, but in this code, the function is trying to both use the global
value, but also a local that deliberately has the same name, but a
different meaning and "value". The CPython compiler doesn't make this
easy, and I think the globals() technique is unnecessarily obscure, as
is the default-argument trick.
If a function knows of the presence of a global, it's not asking too
much for it to not re-use the same name in local scope.
Since it seems to be in vogue to propose language changes, how about a
new place for 'as' ?
def myfunc():
global logger as g_logger
logger = g_logger.debug('stuff').getChild('function')
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