Q's on my first python script

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sun May 10 12:56:52 EDT 2009


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

>> 5. The variable wd is meant to be "global" to the script.  In other
>>    languages I've programmed in I've seen some typographic convention
>>    used for the name of such variables (e.g. all caps) to signal this
>>    widened scope.  Does python have such a convention?
>
> As a general rule, it's best to avoid globals variables as much as
> possible.

However, this is not really a global variable, this is a constant,
which is not something to be avoided, nor something that there is a
convention for (as far as I know).


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com



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