On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:21 pm, BartC wrote: > On 19/06/2016 18:16, Joel Goldstick wrote: > >> People who understand global variables generally avoid using them at >> all costs. > > Then perhaps they don't understand that in Python, top-level functions, > classes and imports are also globals.
But not global *variables*. They are generally used as per-module global *constants*, or at least near-constants. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list