Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:10:10 +1300
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <bnd1cbF7tu5U2@mid.individual.net>
References: <27ac2248-0ca3-4ba6-9d25-eaad324bc5e9@googlegroups.com> <bd36a46b-d704-4eb1-9b7d-1308d1fb6699@googlegroups.com> <mailman.7435.1393523704.18130.python-list@python.org> <5f4f5a5f-327a-4616-8235-17ee9e74c488@googlegroups.com> <530fef58$0$11113$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <e24e0817-67d1-4dbd-b3ba-9250e735d261@googlegroups.com> <mailman.7453.1393562612.18130.python-list@python.org> <871tynznpd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <53104798$0$11113$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <mailman.7460.1393577227.18130.python-list@python.org> <87ha7jy2qs.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <5310b031$0$29985$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <db181305-97fe-4385-bf11-5323d4bd1160@googlegroups.com> <87iorzf4ro.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <mailman.7479.1393613988.18130.python-list@python.org> <877g8ff3hn.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <d5984405-9ad5-4514-98cf-1914a1de7bc8@googlegroups.com> <87wqgfdk6a.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <0b414429-74ee-45dd-9465-c87e98c362f2@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net LVwla0ovENhwyhYhvwjHNAODnwEBbXY5Po6jsf7xxM2ViNc/ic
Cancel-Lock: sha1:AyFURyIb6NdX6ZBnqx87C3usQW8=
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <0b414429-74ee-45dd-9465-c87e98c362f2@googlegroups.com>
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:67286

Mark H. Harris wrote:

>     if (n**2 < D(1)):
>         a = __atan__(n)
>     elif (n == D(1)):
>         a = gpi/4
>     elif (n == D(-1)):
>         a = -(gpi/4)
>     elif (n < D(-1)):
>         a = __atan__Lt_neg1__(n)
>     else:
>         a = __atan__Gt_1__(n)

That's not a candidate for a switch statement, because
the comparisons are not all equality comparisons.

-- 
Greg