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Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought

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Charles T. Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:29:20 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
>> Usefully? Never.
>> 
>> Simple question - simple answer :)
>> 
>> ChrisA
> 
> 
> Right, that was the expected answer as well.  I just ran into that in
> legacy code, checked out the documentation and couldn't really make that
> out.  So I figured I better ask here before I end up with egg on my face
> 
> :)
> 
> Thanks folks.
> 
> Actually, it would be nice if there were a -lint or -warnings flag
> for such cases, a la perl or gcc.

There is an external tool called pylint that among other things detects 
superfluous global statements.

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a clarification on the "global" statement sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 08:13 +0000
  Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 19:29 +1100
    Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 08:53 +0000
      Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-03-11 10:23 +0100
  Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-11 08:31 +0000
    Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 09:09 +0000
      Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 20:29 +1100
  Re: a clarification on the "global" statement sought eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 03:20 -0600

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