Help on scope/namespace

[Alex Martelli]

Mike Meyer wrote:
   ...
> without breaking them - this should be easy, as you turn:
> 
>         def function(arg):
>             global globvar
>             ...
> 
> into
>         def function(arg, globvar):
>             ...
> 
> Any function that does an assignment to a global variable can't be
> changed this way. Take all the functions that can be rewritten, move

If a function does NOT assign to global globvar, then the function
should NOT have a "global globvar" statement, as such a statement
would then be redundant.  So, there's something strange in this
advice, IMHO.


Alex