On 2011-05-31, at 24:35 , Dan Stromberg wrote:
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> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Henry Olders wrote:
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> Be careful not to conflate global scoping or global lifetime, with mutability
> or pure, side-effect-free functions (callables). It sounds like what you
> want is i
On 2011-05-30, at 20:52 , Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Henry Olders wrote:
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>> On 2011-05-29, at 4:30 , Henry Olders wrote:
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> Python doesn't have true globals. When we say "global" what we mean is
> "modul
On 2011-05-31, at 1:13 , Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
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> what you really seem to want is that a function by default
> cannot have any side effects (you have a side effect if a
> function changes things outside of its local scope). But
> that would be a very different language than python
You're pa
On 2011-05-29, at 4:30 , Henry Olders wrote:
> I just spent a considerable amount of time and effort debugging a program.
> The made-up code snippet below illustrates the problem I encountered:
>
> def main():
> a = ['a list','with','three element
Henry
On 2011-05-29, at 5:47 , Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> On Sonntag 29 Mai 2011, Henry Olders wrote:
>> It seems that in Python, a variable inside a function is
>> global unless it's assigned.
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> no, they are local
>
>> I would have thou
I just spent a considerable amount of time and effort debugging a program. The
made-up code snippet below illustrates the problem I encountered:
def main():
a = ['a list','with','three elements']
print a
print fnc1(a)
print a
def fnc1(b):
return fn
