Re: create global variables?

Wojciech Muła wrote:
Alistair King wrote:

is there a simple way of creating global variables within a function?


def foo(name):
globals()[name] = "xxx"
globals()[name + 'aa'] = "yyy"
globals()[name + 'ab'] = "zzz"

Please note that this is a terrible programming practice. Anyone who really thinks they need to do this should be thinking hard about whether they are using Python correctly (though tere are occasionaly requirements where the feature can legitimately be used).

It would be *much* easier and *much* better programming practice to modify your code so the function returns a two-element tuple, which you then assign to two variables in an unpacking assignment.

regards
Steve
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