Accessing one's main script's global from imported libraries

[marshall]

czrpb <nanotech at europa.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1046111768.26279.python-list at python.org>...
> All:
> 
> Say I have spam.py with the global taste.
> Say in spam.py I import eggs.
> Say I want eggs to access spam.py's taste global.
> 
> How might I do this?
> 
> thanks!! Quentin
> 

As you will no doubt read, you are not _supposed_ to do this.  You are
_supposed_ to be passing parameters from the objects or functions in
spam.py to the objects or functions in eggs.py.  However, I have
believe the best practice to acheive what you want is to have a
separate file (e.g. spamglobals.py) and have all other files import
that.  I could very well be wrong about that but that is what works
for me (newbie disclaimer).

I think the more general question is: "What is the best way to split a
large program up into several modules and still let them all have
access to application global data?"

What I have been doing is creating an Application instance which has
all of the global data (like maxscreensize, datapath, etc.) as
attributes.  Then I pass this App instance as a parameter to every
other object that the application creates.  If there is a better way I
would sure like to hear about it.

Marshall