"Paolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've heard 2 people complain that word 'global' is confusing. >> >> Perhaps 'modulescope' or 'module' would be better? >> >> Am I the first peope to have thought of this and suggested it? >> >> Is this a candidate for Python 3000 yet? >> >> Chris > > I don't think the global keyword is useful actually. > > What's so special in a module nemespace to be priviledged like that.
> The point IMO is accessing names defined somewhere in the enclosing > namespaces. The issue isn't _accessing_ the module namespace. It's binding to identifiers in the module namespace. The reason is that _assigning_ to an identifier in a function or method makes that identifier local, so there needs to be a simply way of saying that you want to be able to assign to an identifier in the module namespace. (There's already a more complicated way: use the global() built-in function.) John Roth > Regards Paolino -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
