The global statement

[Nick Vargish]

"David Hitillambeau" <edavid at intnet.mu> writes:

> I want to enable some sharing between the two functions (foo and bar)
> using one global variable in such a way that each function can have read
> and write access over it.

Using the "global" statement seems unpythonic to me, for reasons I'm
too lazy to come up with good ways to express. :^) This is what I do,
if I need something like this: 

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class Global:
    """Generic container for shared variables."""
    pass

def foo():
    Global.somevar = 'set in foo'

def bar():
    print Global.somevar

foo()
bar()
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HTH,

Nick

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