Function to avoid a global variable

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:26 PM ast <ast at invalid> wrote:
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> Le 28/04/2020 à 09:13, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:56 PM ast <ast at invalid> wrote:
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> >> Le 27/04/2020 à 04:46, Bob van der Poel a écrit :
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> >
> > "Best"? Not sure about that. Functions are first-class objects in
> > Python, so a function *is* a callable object. You don't have to create
> > a custom class with a call method just to be able to attach attributes
> > to your function.
> >
> > ChrisA
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> Using a mutable object as a function default parameter value
> and changing it inside the function looks like a "trick"
> according to me.

Sure. But you're contrasting this to a suggestion to literally just
attach attributes to a function. Python lets you actually do that. You
don't have to simulate the feature by creating a custom class and
making it callable - you just straight-up add attributes to a
function. Sure, what you suggested works, but there's no reason to.

ChrisA