In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I had a global variable holding a count. One source Google found >suggested that I wouldn't need the global if I used an object. So I >created a Singleton class that now holds the former global as an >instance attribute. Bye, bye, global. > >But later I thought about it. I cannot see a single advantage to the >object approach. Am I missing something? Or was the original global a >better, cleaner solution to the "I need a value I can read/write from >several places" problem?
The advantage of the global singleton is that it is a container; therefore, its contents are mutable and you don't need to keep using the ``global`` statement. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
