On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 22:45:14 -0500, Ned Batchelder wrote: > I think it might be that the OP's question, "Can a global variable be > passed into a function", really had nothing to do with the > name/value/variable distinction, and we've done it again: taken a simple > question and spun off into pedantry and trivia.
You might be right, but the OP's question isn't really clear. Surely he didn't mean something as trivial as this? x = 1 # This is a global some_function(x) # Passing a global into a function His description, especially the comment about pass by reference, suggests that there is more to it than just passing a global variable as argument to a function. I think he is trying to *write* to the variable as well, as an output variable, something like this: x = 1 y = 2 some_function(x) assert x == 99 some_function(y) assert y == 99 Sadly, it appears to have been a drive-by question: Sam tossed a question out the window as he drove by, and may never come back for the answer... I hope I'm wrong, but it's been nearly 24 hours since the question was asked and not a peep from the OP. Sam, if you're out there reading this, please respond with more detail about what you are trying to do! -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
