Charles Krug wrote: > List: > > I've a module that's not doing what I expect. My guess is that I don't > quite understand the scoping rules the way I should. > > I have an object that's costly to create. My thought was to create it > at the module level like this:
(snip) > What's the correct way to do this? > See other answers in this thread for how to solve the UnboundLocalError problem. Now about your *real* problem - which is nothing new -, you may want to read about some known solutions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_pattern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_initialization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization HTH -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
