[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To begin with I'd like to apologize that I am not very experienced > Python programmer so please forgive me if the following text does not > make any sense. > > I have been missing constants in Python language. There are some > workarounds available, for example the const-module. To me, this looks > quite cumbersome and very unintuitive. For the interpreter, in the > efficiency-wise, I just cannot tell.
The question is, why have you been missing them? Constants serve a variety of purposes in other languages, some of which might not be worthwhile in Python. There was a thread about 'symbols' a while back which covers many of the uses of constants. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
