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Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter?

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From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter?
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Roy Smith wrote:
> I will commonly put something like:
> 
> import logging
> logger = logging.getLogger("logger-name-for-my-module")

But that's not really a global variable, it's a
global constant. There's nothing wrong with those,
we use them all the time -- classes, functions, etc.

If you were to rebind logger to a different one from
time to time in your code, *then* it would be a global
variable, subject to the usual cautions.

-- 
Greg

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recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 09:49 -0800
  Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-17 04:56 +1100
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 10:22 -0800
  Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-01-16 19:34 +0100
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 10:48 -0800
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 18:23 -0800
      Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 21:29 -0800
      Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-18 10:25 +1300
  Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-17 11:20 +1300
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-17 10:49 +1100
  Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-17 21:15 +1100
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2015-01-17 10:20 -0500
      Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-18 10:07 +1300
  Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-01-17 17:30 +0000
    Re: recursive function: use a global or pass a parameter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-18 06:27 +1100

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