[Tutor] Is defining functions as dummies pythonic?

[Scot W. Stevenson]

Hello Karl,

> I would simply write:
>
> def verbosize (string):
>     if isverbose:
>         print string
>     else:
>         pass

But doesn't that mean that every time this function is called, the program 
has to do the test all over again, even though I already have the 
information from the start? This sound hideously inefficient...

Dankeschön,
Y, Scot

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                Scot W. Stevenson - Panketal, Germany