[Tutor] seeking design pattern

[bob gailer]

I desire to import some functions form a module and give them access to 
names in the main module namespace. Example:

m.py ---------------

def a():
     print(s)

interactive interpreter ---------------
 >>> s = 3
 >>> from m import a
 >>> a()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
   File "N:\m.py", line 2, in a
     print(s)
NameError: name 's' is not defined

My expectation was that the function, having been imported into the main 
module, would access variables in the main module, but alas, not the case.

Is there a workaround? ( easy, "clean", pythonic)


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Bob Gailer