On 25/02/2020 17:16, Christman, Roger Graydon wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 3:06 PM BlindAnagram <blindanag...@nowhere.com> wrote: > >> My interest in this stems from wanting to keep the dictionary only >> available to the function that uses it and also a worry about being >> called from threaded code. > > It seems like the simplest solution for this is to make > a completely new file (module) containing nothing but > the dictionary and this one function that uses it. > Then you can import the function from the module > wherever it is called without importing the dictionary. > > The thing I find curious is that apparently no other > function is allowed to create or populate the dictionary > in the first place. Is it practical to have the entire > dictionary statically defined?
The dictionary is a static variable of the function. It is updated by the function and must maintain values across function calls. Reading some more, it seems that I can create static function variables using attributes. Brian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
