Ok the 'global' syntax thing makes a lot more sense than the one I was told about (which involved the 'inspect' module iirc). The typing - yes I understand all

Ok the 'global' syntax thing makes a lot more sense than the one I was told about (which involved the 'inspect' module iirc). The typing - yes I understand all of that, my point still stands that it's all 'you don't need to know all of this! Oh, at least, until you do'. Wrt python3 - fair enough, things probably do get better. But that just reinforces my point about cruft building up in any practical language, and Python being just as susceptible to it as other languages.