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

[Mike Meyer]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> > You can also just import spam instead of eggs. Mutual imports like
> > that require a little care, but can work.
> Assuming you mean "import spam from eggs"

Right...


> Now when you run "python spam.py" you will see [23] printed.
> If you edited eggs.py to use spam instead of __main__, then
> when you ran "python spam.py" it would print the empty list
> [] twice -- eggs.py would have imported spam.py again under
> the new and different name 'spam', a distinct copy from the
> one that is loading under the name '__main__'.  Try it...

Oh, I believe you. I did say they require some care. You've found one
of the areas that don't work quite right.

        <mike
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