Safe to modify globals(), or not?

[Peter Otten]

Aahz wrote:

> import __main__
> tmp = parse_funky_language("Hey, this is far out, man.")
> setattr(__main__, tmp.name, tmp.value)
> 
> In the context of the interactive interpreter, it's a bit harder to do;
> I don't remember off-hand what the namespace of the interpreter is.

You don't need to :-)

Python 2.3.3 (#1, Jan  3 2004, 13:57:08)
[GCC 3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> __name__
'__main__'

Peter