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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Charles T. Smith
<cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> When might a "global" statement be used in the outermost level of a module?
>
> (whereby, I assume a module is equivalent to a python file, correct?)
>

Usefully? Never.

Simple question - simple answer :)

ChrisA