> I know that overall Global variables are bad idea, however, I have a > situation where on on initialisation of a class, I need to read in two > files and then populate two lists.
Hi Max, Could you give more context to this problem? I'm not sure we get it yet. *grin* > The lists need to would appear to need to be outwith the class I am > working with and global. Are the lists a part of the "state" of the instance? If not, why is this a part of the instance's initialization? I think we'd better wait on advice until we learn a little more about the situation. Good luck! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor