On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:03:03 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote: > The global statement in Write_LCD_Data is completely unnecessary. The > only time you need "global" is if you want to reassociate the global > name to another object (such as LCD = LCD + 1 or whatever).
That's technically true, but declaring it with global makes the code self-documenting and therefore easier to read. It's never _wrong_ to use the global statement, even if it is strictly unnecessary for the Python compiler. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
