[Tutor] global variables

[wolfrage8765 at gmail.com]

Steve,

Thanks for all of this information.  It seems the OP has sparked the
kind of discussion that I had hopped for when I posted
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/83251

Luckily though I did get an excellent response from Alan.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/83251/focus=83252

Still what you have posted here has been a good read, so, thank you.
--
Jordan

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 23/08/13 00:59, Andy McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> Isn't object orientation kind of the whole POINT of Python?  From
>> python.org:
>> "Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming
>> language
>> with dynamic semantics."
>
>
>
> Well, yes and no.
>
> Python is an object-oriented language in the sense that all of Python is
> built using objects. Everything, including modules, functions, ints,
> strings, yes, even classes themselves, are objects.
>
> But also no, in the sense that the code you write doesn't have to be written
> using OOP techniques. Python is a multi-paradigm language in the sense that
> you can write code using any of these styles:
>
> - object-oriented
>
> - functional
>
> - procedural
>
> - imperative
>
> - or a mix of all of the above.
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
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