Evan Klitzke a écrit : > On 7/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>is it possible to do this without passing it as a function argument? >> > Sort of. Functions are objects in python, so you can set attribute on them. > E.g. > > def foo(): > return foo.c > > foo.c = 1 > print foo()
>>> def foo(): ... print foo.c ... >>> foo.c = 1 >>> bar = foo >>> del foo >>> bar() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<stdin>", line 2, in foo NameError: global name 'foo' is not defined >>> > Which will print 1. Of course, it would generally be better to write > your own class for this sort of thing, so that you can set the > variable in the instance scope. Indeed. But even with OO, explicit is better than implicit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
