global variables

[Chris Liechti]

Thorsten Harms <thorstenharms at arcor.de> wrote in 
news:mailman.1027363530.26305.python-list at python.org:
> Hi!
> I 'm completely new to python.

willkommen

> So here's my problem:
> How can I handle global data in my application?
> The application is a database application and I want
> to provide non-static informations, like the user id, name,
> etc. so that every object can access this information.
> Normally, I use C/C++ for coding, but these tricks don't
> work ;-)
> Maybe, you can give me some hints...

if you need to access this data from different modules, put the data in a 
module that you import in each other. (modules are singletons in python)

--file: myglobals.py --
names = id = None

--file: someothermod.py
import myglobals
myglobals.name = "Chris"

... etc.

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>