Need help with "global" variables

[Nick Perkins]

Your modules are going to have to import the globals.  You could put them
all in a separate file, call it "my_globals.py", and then in each file
(including the 'main' file), you would have:
from my_globals import *



"Pugsley" <europax at home.com> wrote in message
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> I'm converting a number crunching program from C to Numeric Python, and
> I'm really getting stuck on how to deal with global variables.
>
> For example, there are about 30 variables that are defined in the main
> program that I want to be global and available in the functions in the
> modules.  (the modules are seperate files that I import).   A simple
> example would be:
>
> def foo(arg1, arg2):
>
> global bar1, bar2, bar3,             etc.
>
> result= bar1+bar2+bar3+ arg1+arg2
>
> return result
>
>
>
> But all I get are errors stating that the global variables have not been
> defined.  This behavior seems to run counter to what is implied in some
> books that I've been reading.
>
> What am I doing wrong?   Thanks,   Rob.