Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost1.xs4all.net!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'mrab': 0.05; 'responding': 0.07; 'globals': 0.09; 'message- id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'thread': 0.10; ':-)': 0.12; 'thu,': 0.15; '10:15': 0.16; '>on': 0.16; 'disclaiming': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'memory': 0.17; 'url:home': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'sep': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'ago': 0.29; 'guess': 0.31; 'michael': 0.33; 'but': 0.36; '(and': 0.36; "wasn't": 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'whom': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'rather': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'still': 0.40; 'ago.': 0.61; 'talking': 0.67; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Python handles globals badly. Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:41:07 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <3bbeafa4-d756-46f8-9750-2fca29617cf4@googlegroups.com> <55E878BF.4050507@gmail.com> <55E8919C.1070909@mrabarnett.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-68-178-61.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1441320074 news.xs4all.nl 23806 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47806 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:95977 On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:29:48 +0100, MRAB declaimed the following: >On 2015-09-03 17:43, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 10:15 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: >>> The only person whom I see talking about this in this thread is you >>> disclaiming that you're not talking about it. (And I guess Skybuck is >>> talking about it, but I don't see those.) >> >> I have a vague memory of Skybuck talking about globals over a year ago. >> That must be what tdev's responding to. >> >It wasn't as long ago as that; it's been only 9 months! :-) > Still a rather pregnant pause... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/