Globals between modules ?

[PGMoscatt]

Roy Smith wrote:

> In article <42302be9$0$2232$9a6e19ea at news.newshosting.com>,
>  PGMoscatt <pgmoscatt at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Does Python allow a 'global' variable that can be used between different
>> modules used within an app ?
>> 
>> Pete
> 
> You could explicitly import __main__ and use that as a global namespace
> (see example below).  Or (perhaps a better idea), you could have a module
> dedicated to global storage, and import that in all your other modules
> instead of importing __main__.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Roy-Smiths-Computer:play$ cat global.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import a
> import b
> 
> a.set()
> print "x = %s" % x
> print "b.get() = %s" % b.get()
> ---------------------------------
> Roy-Smiths-Computer:play$ cat a.py
> import __main__
> 
> def set():
>     __main__.x = "hello"
> ---------------------------------
> Roy-Smiths-Computer:play$ cat b.py
> import __main__
> 
> def get():
>     return __main__.x
> ---------------------------------
> Roy-Smiths-Computer:play$ ./global.py
> x = hello
> b.get() = hello

Thanks Roy....  yep, that makes sense.

Thanks again.

Pete