Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:03:03 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote: > >> The global statement in Write_LCD_Data is completely unnecessary. The >> only time you need "global" is if you want to reassociate the global >> name to another object (such as LCD = LCD + 1 or whatever). > > That's technically true, but declaring it with global makes the code > self-documenting and therefore easier to read. > > It's never _wrong_ to use the global statement, even if it is strictly > unnecessary for the Python compiler. > > Although I'm not an expert, I guess you're both right.
thanks and cheers, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
