sort of a beginner question about globals

[fred.dixon]

how would i use the following if OPTIONS was in a module ?
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from optparse import OptionParser

usage = "usage: %prog [options] arg"
parser = OptionParser(usage)

parser.add_option("-d", "--debug", ction="store_true", dest="verbose")
(OPTIONS = parser.parse_args()

ps
Im not anywhere near my program right now just doing some kunch time
surfing.