Paul McGuire wrote: < plus sundry other parts of the kitchen > sink) that was passed BY PROJECT CODING STANDARDS to EVERY FUNCTION IN > EVERY MODULE! Supposedly, this was done to cure access problems to a > global data structure.
Beautiful example of how totally stupid actions can be taken in the name of avoiding globals. Wikipedia and PEP 8 both agree with me, re globals. OK way to eliminate chained argument passing, but keep them within one module. _OFILE, by the way, is the output file. It's contract with the rest of the module was to be available for writing to anyone with data to write. I use the Java convention of ALLCAPS for naming things that I would declare as CONSTANT if Python had such a declaration. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
