Globals or objects?

[Aahz]

In article <47bd7ffe$0$514$bed64819 at news.gradwell.net>,
 <tinnews at isbd.co.uk> wrote:
>Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> In article <72b59db8-ec9c-480a-9ae7-92a69acb70a6 at 41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>>  <MartinRinehart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>I had a global variable holding a count. One source Google found
>>>suggested that I wouldn't need the global if I used an object. So I
>>>created a Singleton class that now holds the former global as an
>>>instance attribute. Bye, bye, global.
>>>
>>>But later I thought about it. I cannot see a single advantage to the
>>>object approach. Am I missing something? Or was the original global a
>>>better, cleaner solution to the "I need a value I can read/write from
>>>several places" problem?
>> 
>> The advantage of the global singleton is that it is a container; 
>> therefore, its contents are mutable and you don't need to keep using the 
>> ``global`` statement.
>
>.... but you do keep having to use a longer reference to the value so
>what have you won?

Clarity, simplicity, robustness
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