global variable not seen (bug?)

[Peter Abel]

Michal Vitecek <fuf at mageo.cz> wrote in message news:<mailman.1042041138.4444.python-list at python.org>...
> hello everyone,
> 
>  i've encountered a strange problem with accessing a global variable
>  from imported module. the imported module (file imported.py) contains:
>  
> ---imported.py start---
>  def someFunction():
>     global GLOBAL_VARIABLE
> 
>     print GLOBAL_VARIABLE
> ---imported.py end---
> 
>  and now the session copy:
> 
> ---session start---
> Python 2.2.1 (#4, Sep  4 2002, 13:43:54) 
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> GLOBAL_VARIABLE = 'some value'
> >>> from imported import *
> >>> dir()
>  ['GLOBAL_VARIABLE', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'someFunction']
> >>> someFunction()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "imported.py", line 4, in someFunction
>     print GLOBAL_VARIABLE
> NameError: global name 'GLOBAL_VARIABLE' is not defined
> >>> 
> ---session end---
> 
>  what's the problem here? it seems to me like this is a bug in python.
> 
>     thanks for any responses,


I think you first should do the import
and then define GLOBAL_VARIABLE = 'some value'
then it should work.
Cheers
Peter