Turn of globals in a function?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:01:28 GMT, Ron_Adam <radam2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

>>Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class?>>I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by>mistake.  So hiding them would force a name error in the case that I>omit an initialization step.  This might be a good way to quickly>catch some hard to find, but easy to fix, errors in large code blocks.>>Examples:>>def a(x):>    # ...>    x = y         # x is assigned to global y unintentionally.>    # ...>    return x>>def b(x):>    # hide globals somehow>    # ...>    x = y    # Cause a name error>    # ...>    return x>>
If you put the above def b in e.g. a_module.py,
and do a (untested ;-)

    from a_module import b

instead of defining it locally, then the global references
from b (and whatever else you import from a_module)
should be to the global dict defined for a_module (i.e., its
outermost scope),  not to the globals where you do the import.

>y = True>>>>>a(False):>True
Should work if you define a in place having same scope as the y assignment
>>>>>b(False):>*** name error here ***>
UIAM it should do this if you import b as above.

Regards,
Bengt Richter