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Re: the global keyword:

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: the global keyword:
Date 2016-06-24 11:19 +1000
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> To me, a global variable is a variable which is scoped to a level wider than
> any single function, i.e. module scope, or whole-application scope. That
> is, the variable must be visible to more than one function, or more than
> one module.

... and not part of a closure, because they're not global. (I'd also
say "nor part of an object", but objects in Python have attributes
accessed using 'self.', so your other check removes that. But in C++,
that would need to be another criterion.)

ChrisA

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