Python handles globals badly.

[jtan]

I wish him all the luck while having sleep deprivation trying to solve
production issues :)

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> jtan wrote:
>
> > How can Skybuck use so much globals. Wouldn't that introduce a lot of
> > thread safety problems?
>
> Of course it would. But I expect that Skybuck probably doesn't even know
> what threads are. Or if he does, he probably doesn't believe that they
> should be used.
>
> Thread safety is just the start of the problems with global variables:
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GlobalVariablesAreBad
>
> Globals in Python are less bad than in many other languages, since they are
> localised to a single module only. And the use of a few globals here and
> there as needed is perfectly fine for small scripts. But using dozens of
> them to avoid passing arguments to functions, that's just awful code.
>
>
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