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On 11/03/2016 08:13, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> When might a "global" statement be used in the outermost level of a module?

Never. Hopefully this 
http://www.python-course.eu/python3_global_vs_local_variables.php can 
explain it better than I can :)

>
> (whereby, I assume a module is equivalent to a python file, correct?)

Correct.

>
> TIA for any thoughts.
>
> cts
>

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