[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> >>>Hi Pythonians, >>> >>>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. >> >>Why so ? >> >>I guess you're talking about named (symbolic) constants ? If so, just >>follow the convention : a name in ALL_UPPERCASE is a constant (or at >>least will be treated as such by anyone not wanting to mess with your >>package's implementation). No need to add extra syntax here IMHO. > > > Hi Bruno, > > For example: > > >>>>A = [] # let's declare a "constant" here
Uh ? That's the strangest idea I've ever seen - I mean, using an empty list as a constant... If you need your constant to be a sequence (while I can't imagine any reason to do so), use a tuple. (snip) > As you can see, the "constant" A can be modified this easily. But if > there were an intuitive mechanism to declare a symbol to be immutable, Don't worry about the symbol, use an immutable type !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
