Python handles globals badly.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 05:05 am, tdev at freenet.de wrote:

> Would you remove this keyword if it would be technically possible

Absolutely not.

I do not believe that it is technically possible, but even if it were, I
would still argue that the Zen of Python applies:

Explicit is better than implicit.

Local variables should be the default, and you should explicitly declare any
time you want to write to a global.

Not the other way around, like Lua does. I've always thought that was silly:
you should make the *desirable* thing easy to do, and the *dangerous* think
(using globals) possible but not easy to do by accident.


> or is good for you from high level point of view to have a keyword
> "global"?

Yes.


> My answer is clear: remove it.
> [The same e.g. with switch statement: add it]


What would a switch statement do? How will it be different from if...elif?

Out of the dozen or so different switch statements offered by other
languages, which would you choose?



-- 
Steven