Re: [PLUG] python and global name space

["Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>]

Quoting Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>:

> In the snippet below, I'm hoping foo() will side-effect the global
> num.  It doesn't.
[...]
>     >>> global num
>     >>> num = 0
>     >>> def foo():
>     ...     num += 5
>     ...     print num
>     ...
>     >>> num
>     0
>     >>> foo()

I haven't mucked with Python that much, but redeclaring num as
global inside the function seems to do what you are looking for:

>>> global num
>>> num = 0
>>> def foo():
...     global num
...     num += 5
...     print num
...
>>> num
0
>>> foo()
5
>>> num
5

pls

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