On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:14:33AM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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>Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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On 04/23/2014 06:46 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
In a coursera python course video the following code was presented:
a = [4,5,6]
def mutate_part(x):
a[1] = x
mutate_part(200)
The presenter said something like "a is a global variable, so a becomes
[4,200,6] after running mutate_part(200)."
On 24/04/2014 09:23, Danny Yoo wrote:
Should have no runtime performance difference.
For similar reasons, using a very long variable name does not change a
program's runtime performance.
Please quote some context, this is meaningless without it, thanks.
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Should have no runtime performance difference.
For similar reasons, using a very long variable name does not change a
program's runtime performance.
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- Original Message -
> From: Steven D'Aprano
> To: tutor@python.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] global list
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> You only need to define variables as global if you assign to them:
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> def function(x):
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 04:46:49PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> In a coursera python course video the following code was presented:
>
> a = [4,5,6]
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> def mutate_part(x):
> a[1] = x
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> mutate_part(200)
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> The presenter said something like "a is a global variable, so a becomes
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In a coursera python course video the following code was presented:
a = [4,5,6]
def mutate_part(x):
a[1] = x
mutate_part(200)
The presenter said something like "a is a global variable, so a becomes
[4,200,6] after running mutate_part(200)."
Indeed it does, but why does this work without s
