On 8/05/24 1:32 pm, Popov, Dmitry Yu wrote:
The statement 'global', indicating variables living in the global scope, is very suitable to be used in modules. I'm wondering whether in scripts, running at the top-level invocation of the interpreter, statement 'global' is used exactly the same way as in modules?
The 'global' statement declares a name to be module-level, so there's no reason to use it at the top level of either a script or a module, since everything there is module-level anyway. You only need it if you want to assign to a module-level name from within a function, e.g. spam = 17 def f(): global spam spam = 42 f() # spam is now 42 A script is a module, so everything that applies to modules also applies to scripts. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
