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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Variable scope inside and outside functions - global statement
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On 2024-03-08, Chris Angelico via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 00:51, Grant Edwards via Python-list
><python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
>> One might argue that "global" isn't a good choice for what to call the
>> scope in question, since it's not global. It's limited to that source
>> file. It doesn't make sense to me to call a binding "global", when
>> there can be multile different "global" bindings of the same name.
>
> Most "globals" aren't global either, since you can have different
> globals in different running applications.

To me, "global" has always been limited to within a single
process/address space, but that's probably just bias left over from
C/Pascal/FORTRAN/assembly/etc. It never occurred to me that a global
called "X" in one program on one computer would be the same as a
global called "X" in a different program on a different computer
somewhere else on the "globe".