Use global, or not
DL Neil
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Fri Jun 28 20:40:38 EDT 2019
On 29/06/19 1:44 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I have written a GUI program where I have quit a few global variables.
> I did not like this, so I now use one global dict. Something like:
> global global_dict
...
> Is that an acceptable way to do this?
If it works, isn't that the largest part of "acceptable"?
In each case, (previously discussed and/or below) you are taking
advantage of "namespaces" to keep one 'lot' of values separated and
distinct from others - as well as finding a means of 'passing them
around'. The other half of the considerations is how the values are
being retrieved/utilised within the mainline code.
An alternative might be to use a class. Then accessing a single value
becomes instance.attribute, but when you have need for several
attribute's values or to compute a value from several attributes, an
instance.method() may simplify things.
I use the above idea for a 'configuration' class which has values built
from constants/defaults, plus command-line arguments, etc (as
appropriate to the application and user-needs).
Another approach might be to use a module. After import module as
module_name, single-value access becomes module_name.cancelled_report (etc).
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Regards =dn
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