suggestions for functional style (singleton pattern?)

[Mario Figueiredo]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:19:06 +0100, Fabien <fabien.maussion at gmail.com>
wrote:

>On 01.03.2015 06:05, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>   A module*is*  a singleton pattern, particularly one
>> that maintains state.  I use sometimes use this feature for sharing
>> config and other data between other modules (global state when it's
>> required).
>
>I do this too, after some helping recommendations I got from this 
>discussion group. I find it neat to use a module for sharing config 
>states, but I always wondered: does this pattern fall into the "globals 
>are devil" category?
>

Global constants are conceptually different than global variables. It
is just that in Python there is no semantic diference between the two.
The former are OK and a useful pattern, whereas the latter are the
ones we call evil.