Can global variable be passed into Python function?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Feb 22 03:10:02 EST 2014

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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:02 PM, <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> # a swapping variant
>>>> def swap(a, b):
> ... ab = [a, b]
> ... ab[1], ab[0] = ab[0], ab[1]
> ... return ab[0], ab[1]

Provably identical to:
def swap(a, b):
 return b, a
The rest is just fluff.
ChrisA

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