I missed an important line of code. Here it is: >>> aaa = 'telltale'
Once you have that, these will work: >>> eval('aaa', fn.__globals__) 'telltale' >>> __name__ '__main__' >>> import sys >>> getattr(sys.modules[__name__], 'aaa') 'telltale' -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/