Can global variable be passed into Python function?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com>:

> And one could also set A=1 and B=1 if he was trying to be stupid.
> [...]
> If Mark H wants to use an idiom that isn't conventional, or isn't
> widely used, he is free to do so; I can't see much harm in it. But
> certainly it's not the "normal" way that it's done in Python from what
> I can see.

You might be referring to what I have proposed.

Note that the idiom is in use in some standard python modules
(socket.py, ftplib.py, argparse.py, optparse.py). It is used extensively
in sre_compile.py/sre_constants.py:

   ANY = "any"
   [...]
   AT = "at"
   [...]
   CALL = "call"
   [...]
   IN = "in"

           elif op is IN:
           [...]
           elif op is ANY:
           [...]
           elif op is CALL:
           [...]
           elif op is AT:


Marko