creating variable in root namespace from module

MakaMaka justin.frost at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 13:19:32 EST 2006


Ok, I figured it out.  Thanks for your help guys.  If anybody else is
searching this group looking for the answer, you want the
sys._getframe() function.

sys._getframe(1).f_locals['a'] = 1

if you put the above in a function in a module, it creates a variable
'a' in the namespace of whatever calls the function in the module.  I
know this may make people cringe, but since I'm trying to basically
create a language, of which python is a subset, it's actually exactly
what I need to do.

-Justin




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