deelan wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in
comp.lang.python:
> Paolino wrote:
> (...)
>> What I'm needing as a global (in globals() or at the module level or
>> in the module namespace) is 'translate'.The rest of bindings
>> (all,badcars and table) is something which is 'polluting' the module
>> namespace.
>
> try this:
>
> ## yourmodule.py ##
>
> def _setup_table():
> import string
> all=string.maketrans('','')
> badcars=all.translate(all,string.letters+string.digits)
> return string.maketrans(badcars,'_'*len(badcars))
>
> TABLE = _setup_table()
>
> # optional, get rid of _setup_table symbol
> del _setup_table()
>
> def translate(text):
> return text.translate(TABLE)
>
After 3 or 4 iterations I refactored you code to this:
def translate( text )
import string
all=string.maketrans('','')
badcars=all.translate(all,string.letters+string.digits)
TABLE = string.maketrans(badcars,'_'*len(badcars))
global translate
def translate( text ):
return text.translate(TABLE)
print "First Call! ", # -- Just for demonstration --
return translate( text )
print translate("If I was ...")
print translate("If I was ...")
Rob.
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