"Paddy O'Loughlin" <patrick.olough...@gmail.com> wrote: > True, but you can use the global statement to refer to the variable > within a function and read from the variable there, without it being > already initialised in the module.
You don't need the global statement unless you plan to *write* the variable from the function. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list