Can global variable be passed into Python function?

[Ben Finney]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>:
>
> > As has been pointed out to you, the whole point here is that string
> > objects often *are not* distinct, despite conceptually having distinct
> > cretion in the source.
>
> You know full well that this initialization creates references to
> distinct objects:
>
>     class ABC:
>         IDLE = "IDLE"
>         CONNECTING = "CONNECTING"
>         CONNECTED = "CONNECTED"
>         DISCONNECTING = "DISCONNECTING"
>         DISCONNECTED = "DISCONNECTED"
>
> The 5 constants can (and should) be distinguished with the "is"
> operator.

>From each other, of course they're distinct, because they are unequal.

They are *not* necessarily distinct from other strings with equal value,
defined elsewhere. That's what has been pointed out to you many times.

So, either you care about these values being distinct from all others
because you want to compare them with ‘is’ (and so strings are a poor
choice); or you don't care about that, and you should instead compare
these values with the equality operator ‘==’.

Either way, don't compare strings with ‘is’. If you want objects you can
compare reliably with ‘is’, use some other type.

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