Reflecting the answers I want to add following first:
I should have better started a new thread.
But now it is here, I want just clarify something before
I move on (later) with repsonding.
I think this has lead to some confusing.
There are now two main topics in this thread.
First topic:
"sharing globals between modules"
Where globals is meant as vars used throughout the app.
This is the topic why Skybuck starts the thread.
And yes I agree globals can be bad design
and it is solved via outsourcing to an extra module and used via imports.
I misinterpreted this topic a little by thinking
the focus is more about the use of the badly "global" keyword
(in my point of view) and added therefore my post here as
Second topic:
"Forced to use "global" for write-access inside functions
is over-regulation and should be removed."
This topic has nothing todo with sharing globals.
It is about in the scope of a single module only.
When I have written globals in this topic
I have meant and mean vars defined in a module outside
functions and used inside function blocks.
Sorry if this has lead to confusion, but so long
I have read docs I would say that these vars are
often named as globals although I meant module vars.
Reason is that module scope is the highest
scope and often referred as the global scope.
That is also why I dislike the word "global" too.
I talk about this construct:
Sample "Bad":
module A
_x = 0
def y():
global x
_x=1
and I aim for - it would be nicer to allow for simplicity
writing this without the keyword "global"
and give this small responsibility ("write protection")
back to the developer:
Sample "Good":
module A
_x = 0
def y():
_x=1
why - this I have tried and try to explain in my and your posts
in the hope a PEP will arise which frees me and hopefully
a lot other developers getting forced to use "global"
(If developers need this "global" - ok, but I and
hopefully more want not to be forced with that
code-contaminator, especially having a lot more vars)
Said that, I will not respond to comments about sharing globals
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