sot/timelines — comment on commit 3331ac4cd6b39cbf308f44eb790207bdc0b3787b
File: update_load_seg_db.py line 550
By taldcroft:

In general `dbh` is more appropriate here as a global along with `dryrun`. For something that gets set once at the beginning of a program and gets used globally, defining as such reduces code and interface complexity without any impact on correctness or reliability.