constant in python?

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Sat Aug 18 07:37:52 EDT 2001


Brian Quinlan wrote:
> 
> > i found a similar example on the net i was just making sure.
> > seems kinda alot of work just to get a constant. even perl
> > has "use constant" and thats about the ugliest language around :)
> 
> The questions is why do you need explicit language support for
> constants? Just don't change the value and it should behave constant
> enough for you.

To avoid that another developer in the team changes the constant
accidently?

Ciao, Michael.



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