Question about math.pi is mutable

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Nov 8 19:00:08 EST 2015


BartC <bc at freeuk.com> writes:

> Is this typical Python code? Creating global objects in other modules
> (or writing all over essential data structures in a library module).

Not “creating global objects”, but changing the referent of a name in
some other module. Yes, that's quite a common technique. Does that
surprise you?

If it surprises you, hopefully you can learn some more Python with this
new knowledge.

-- 
 \             “We can't depend for the long run on distinguishing one |
  `\         bitstream from another in order to figure out which rules |
_o__)               apply.” —Eben Moglen, _Anarchism Triumphant_, 1999 |
Ben Finney




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