"Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't understand globals between multiple modules in a python program.
Because there are not any. All names are bound to objects in a module global namespace, a function local namespace, or an object attribute namespace. The builtins seem like and act like intermodule 'globals', but their names are bound in a hidden module which is imported to all other modules and treated like an extension of each module's namespace. Users can do something similar by defining a 'myglobals' module and importing it everywhere. > I've narrowed it down to the following two very simple > programs a.py and b.py. When I run a.py I get the following output: > > inc: 2 > A: 2 > inc: 3 > B: 3 > C: 1 > I don't understand the last line at all. Don't feel too bad. While I 'know' the answer -- running anyfile.py creates a module named '__main__' while importing it (in another module) creates a separate module named 'anyfile' -- it did not 'click' until reading Fredrik's hint. You created a nice, memorable example that shows that __main__ is not anotherfile.anyfile (in this case, not b.a)! Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
