getting global variables from dictionary

[Aaron "Castironpi" Brady]

On Sep 26, 9:01 pm, icarus <rsa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> global_vars.py has the global variables
> set_var.py changes one of the values on the global variables (don't
> close it or terminate)
> get_var.py retrieves the recently value changed (triggered right after
> set_var.py above)
>
> Problem: get_var.py retrieves the old value, the built-in one but not
> the recently changed value in set_var.py.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> ----global_vars.py---
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> class Variables :
>         def __init__(self) :
>                 self.var_dict = {"username": "original username"}
>
> ---set_var.py ---
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import time
> import global_vars
>
> global_vars.Variables().var_dict["username"] = "new username"
> time.sleep(10)   #give enough time to trigger get_var.py
>
> ---get_var.py ---
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import global_vars
> print global_vars.Variables().var_dict.get("username")

Are these separate processes?