[Tutor] Misc question about scoping

[Alan Gauld]

"Tino Dai" <oberoc at gmail.com> wrote

>    Is there a way to express this:
>    isThumbnail = False
>    if size == "thumbnail":
>        isThumbnail = True
>
>     like this:
>     [ isThumbnail = True if size == "thumbnail" isThumbnail = 
> False ]

Bob showed one way, you could also do:

isThumbnail = True if size == "thumbnail" else False

>     and the scoping extending to one level above without resorting 
> to the
> global keyword?

Not sure what this has to do with scoping or the use of global?
global is only needed inside a function if you are modifying a
value defined outside the function.

If the assignment is inside a function and the definition of
isThumbnail is outside then you need to use global.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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