Globals or objects?

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Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <72b59db8-ec9c-480a-9ae7-92a69acb70a6 at 41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>  <MartinRinehart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I had a global variable holding a count. One source Google found
> >suggested that I wouldn't need the global if I used an object. So I
> >created a Singleton class that now holds the former global as an
> >instance attribute. Bye, bye, global.
> >
> >But later I thought about it. I cannot see a single advantage to the
> >object approach. Am I missing something? Or was the original global a
> >better, cleaner solution to the "I need a value I can read/write from
> >several places" problem?
> 
> The advantage of the global singleton is that it is a container; 
> therefore, its contents are mutable and you don't need to keep using the 
> ``global`` statement.

.... but you do keep having to use a longer reference to the value so
what have you won?

-- 
Chris Green