On 8/22/19 12:00 PM, Windson Yang wrote: > I can 'feel' that global variables are evil. I also read lots of articles > proves that (http://wiki.c2.com/?GlobalVariablesAreBad). However, I found > CPython Lib use quite a lot of `global` keyword. So how should we use > `global` keyword correctly? IIUC, it's fine that we use `global` keyword > inside the Lib since most of the time the user just import the lib and call > the API. In any other situation, we should avoid using it. Am I right?
It should be noted that the Python 'global' is much more like the C/C++ file scoped 'static' which is less bad that fully global variables (the extern variable). -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
