Q's on my first python script
Andre Engels
andreengels at gmail.com
Sun May 10 12:56:52 EDT 2009
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> 5. The variable wd is meant to be "global" to the script. In other
>> languages I've programmed in I've seen some typographic convention
>> used for the name of such variables (e.g. all caps) to signal this
>> widened scope. Does python have such a convention?
>
> As a general rule, it's best to avoid globals variables as much as
> possible.
However, this is not really a global variable, this is a constant,
which is not something to be avoided, nor something that there is a
convention for (as far as I know).
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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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