Global package variable, is it possible?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Chris Allen a écrit :
> Hello fellow pythoneers.  I'm stumped on something, and I was hoping
> maybe someone in here would have an elegant solution to my problem.
> This is the first time I've played around with packages, so I'm
> probably misunderstanding something here...
> 
> Here's what I'd like to do in my package.  I want my package to use a
> configuration file, and what I'd like is for the config file to appear
> magically in each module so I can just grab values from it without
> having to load and parse the config file in each package module.  Not
> quite understanding how the __init__.py file works, I expected it to
> be as easy as just setting up the ConfigParser object and then I
> figured (since a package is a module) that it would now be global to
> my package and I could access it in my modules, but I was wrong...  I
> don't want to have to pass it in to each module upon init, or anything
> lame like that.  A main reason for this is that I'd like to be able to
> reload the config file dynamically and have all my modules
> automatically receive the new config.  There must be a way to do this,
> but seeing how __init__.py's namespace is not available within the
> package modules, I don't see a simple and elegant way to do this.
> Does anybody have any suggestions?  Thanks!
> 

Hi Chris...
I've read all the thread, and it seems that your problem is mostly to 
share a single dynamic state (the config) between several modules. So I 
do wonder: have you considered the use of the Singleton pattern (or one 
of it's variants...) ?