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Globals

Jeff Layton jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com
Fri Oct 18 06:41:16 EDT 2002 
Newt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What's the best 'way' of defining globals?

   How about a newbie answer? I've been using a 'Borg' to do
something like what you mentioned:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66531

I created a 'Borg' class then in each module where I need
it, I can create an instance of the class there and access the
data and methods in the class. Very cool for my application
(thank you Alex!).

Good Luck!

Jeff



>
>
> To better express my self, if I wanted to have strVar (a string), iVar (an
> integer) (for example) as globals, I assume I'd have to declare them in my
> main program:
>
> strVar = ""
> iVar = 0
>
> and use the global command when ever I wanted to reference them:
>
> global strVar
> global iVar
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is this the correct/best way?
> 2. To save typing in all the global statements, can I put them in to an
> include file or a source file?
> 3. If I declare them in a .py file, do I still need the global commands to
> use them within Classes and Functions etc defined within that same module?
>
> Thanks
>
> Newt

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