> [Jeff] > > Also, even though this is intended to be a quick shell script, it's > > not a bad idea to make everything except function defs into a little > > main() function, and call it in a script-only section. > > > [Luis] > > > The only thing I'm not clear about is how 'trashcan' can be a > > local variable inside main() when it's required by both trash() and > > can() > > > What Jeff is trying to say is that it's possible to pass 'trashcan' around > as yet another parameter to both trash() and can(). That is, we can avoid > global variables altogether, and just work with parameter passing. >
Lovely, thank you. I started a project that is for learning spanish on-line, of currently 300 lines or so, that is proceeding rapidly thanks to these lessons learned. Thank you Python Tutors, and thank you Python! Cheers, Luis _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
