Is global really global.

[Paul Prescod]

Steve Juranich wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> Why is this happenning even though I specified "options" as a global?  This
> causes me to suspect that "global" means something different in Python than
> it does in C (which isn't a bad idea).

Global in Python means global to a module.
 
> Am I misunderstanding the meaning of "global", or is something else afoot?
> How do I work around this?  I know using globals isn't good anyway, but I'm
> to the point that I _really_ need to show my professor that I've been doing
> more than sitting on my thumb for the past couple of weeks (read: I need to
> get something done _quickly_).

Put the global in your module, instead of in your main script. 

Refer to it as 

mymodulename.val = 5 # in your main program

and

val = 5 # in mymodulename

 Paul Prescod