[kg]

An incrementing global counter is a pretty common scenario if your goal is to have guaranteed-unique IDs assigned to objects within a process, especially if you want them to be sequential too. I've got counters like that in various parts of code I've shipped, typically incremented using atomics.

[pphysch]

Is that global counter really the only dependency? No database connections or anything that would warrant some proper dependency injection?

[sillythrowaway7]

It is a pretty common scenario if you don’t follow almost two decades worth of best practices and suggested alternatives and advice

[immibis]

Can you show us some of this advice?

[mynewaccount00]

... Not using globals? Pass the value around, use recursion, and keep state as local as possible.

[immibis]

I'd like you to show:

How to write Python code with no globals

And a source other than you saying you should do it this way