Python handles globals badly.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:13 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Python is a remarkably clean and consistent language. There's only one
> kind of value (the object -- everything is an object, even classes are
> objects). The syntax isn't full of special cases. For example, there's
> nothing like this horror from Ruby:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> def a(x=4)
>     x+2
> end
> 
> b = 1
> print "a + b => ", (a + b), "\n"
> print "a+b   => ", (a+b), "\n"
> print "a+ b  => ", (a+ b), "\n"
> print "a +b  => ", (a +b), "\n"
> 
> 
> which prints:
> 
> 7
> 7
> 7
> 3


Of course it doesn't. It prints:

a + b => 7
a+b   => 7
a+ b  => 7
a +b  => 3


Sorry about that.



-- 
Steven