Are circular dependencies possible in Python?

Tim Tyler tim at tt1lock.org
Sun Apr 10 03:34:02 EDT 2005


Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote or quoted:
> In <IEosBE.GtB at bath.ac.uk>, Tim Tyler wrote:

> > Like C, Python seems to insist I declare functions before calling
> > them - rather than, say, scanning to the end of the current script
> > when it can't immediately find what function I'm referring to.
> 
> They don't have to be declared but to be *defined* in Python before you
> can call them. [...]

That makes three of you who have called me on my use of "declare".

AFAICT, I was using the standard dictionary definition of this word:

  http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=declare

The term "declare" doesn't have the same meaning as the term "predeclare".
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