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On 02/09/2015 23:25, tdev@freenet.de wrote:
> Therefore still hoping a new PEP will arise.
>
> @Mark Lawrence
> This response I have not checked. Can you provide arguments or clarify your statement?
>

The over use of globals is never to be encouraged, which is precisely 
what this would do.  You could try raising this on python-ideas but I 
suspect you'd be wasting your time, so writing a PEP would almost 
certainly be a waste of time.  Still, if you've got free time go ahead, 
I won't stop you.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence