[Python-Dev] LOAD_NAME & classes (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleax@aleax.it
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:38:39 +0200

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 04:40, Greg Ewing wrote:

Michael Gilfix <mgilfix@eecs.tufts.edu>: > The our is akin to declaring something static in C.

Except that it sounds like if two functions declare "our" variables with the same name, they get the same variable, whereas in C they would be different variables. (I think -- it just occurred to me that I'm not really sure about that!)

You think correctly: two C functions declaring static function-scope variables with the same name get different variables. static variables at FILE scope are 'shared' throughout the file, but not between files.

Alex