Globals or objects?

[Aahz]

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.
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