diliup gabadamudalige <dili...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > there are many dictionaries and lists which are used in various functions. Is it better/pythonic/efficient to have these inside the function itself or declared at the beginning of the program in which case they will be global? They are all read only. I understand that global constants and variable have memory allocated to them but when declared inside a function are created on the fly, used and discarded. >
(Please use text mail to post here, not html. Html messages can cause several kinds of problems in a text mailing list. ) If they are read-only, you don't want to waste time recreating them over and over. Neither do you want to be repeating the code that initializes them. So make them either global or a class member, and be sure to name them all caps to signify they shouldn't be altered. -- DaveA _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
