object aware of others

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:48:34 +1300, Lee Chaplin wrote:

[...]
> The last four lines work if they are in the same module as the class
> definitions (a000), but it doesn't work if they are called from a
> different module, say:

globals() is not actually global to the entire Python session. It 
actually means global to a module. Every module has its own globals().

Python doesn't really have a concept of "global to the entire session" as 
such, although the built-ins comes close. But if you mess with built-ins, 
people will be sarcastic at you. They may even use irony.

However, you can fetch another module's globals by using:

vars(module)


-- 
Steven