Global confusion

[Gaetan Corneau]

Guys,


David Ascher wrote:
> The problem is that because nbPar is *assigned to* in the function body
[...]

I'm sorry I asked the question. I was thinking about it yesterday night
while driving home, and found the answer.
I often use globals, but never change their values :)

Thank you for the explanations, now I understand the mechanism.

John Skaller wrote:
>	class X(): pass
>	x = X()
>	def f(y):
>		x.y =1 # assign to attribute of global instance

Interesting. I won't ask why this works, but it might come handy.

Thanks,
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