In article <11146533.5.1335125285850.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pboo1>, mambokn...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:48:23 PM UTC-7, Roy Smith wrote: > .... > > Answer 1: You can't. > > > > Answer 2: You might want to look at thread local storage > > (http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#threading.local). > > > > Answer 3: Are you sure you really want to do this? > > Thanks! Here is what I need to do, perhaps you can give me some hints. > > A generic module, used across different independent programs, puts its > computing results in a var fairly big, ~50KB. Why do they do that? Why don't they just return the result? > How can I do? I cannot think of making that var local and 'returning' ~50KB > all the times the module is called. Why not? If you return a 50 kb string or some other data structure, you're not actually copying 50 kb of data, you're just returning a handle to the data object. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
