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

[Mike Meyer]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> czrpb wrote:
> > 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?
> You shouldn't -- it sets up the worst possible kinds of
> dependencies.  But if you're really dead set on it:
> 
> ===spam.py:
> taste = 23
> import eggs
> 
> ===eggs.py:
> import __main__
> print __main__.taste

You can also just import spam instead of eggs. Mutual imports like
that require a little care, but can work.

        <mike
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