Overriding a global

[Dave Angel]

On 12/12/2011 04:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:13:33 +0100, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>
>> Using the same name for 2 different objects is a bad idea in general.
> We have namespaces precisely so you don't need to care about making names
> globally unique.
>
>
True, but in this code, the function is trying to both use the global 
value, but also a local that deliberately has the same name, but a 
different meaning and "value".  The CPython compiler doesn't make this 
easy, and I think the globals() technique is unnecessarily obscure, as 
is the default-argument trick.

If a function knows of the presence of a global, it's not asking too 
much for it to not re-use the same name in local scope.

Since it seems to be in vogue to propose language changes, how about a 
new place for 'as' ?
def myfunc():
      global logger as g_logger
      logger = g_logger.debug('stuff').getChild('function')

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DaveA