On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:31:03 -0700, AK Eric wrote: >> 2/ in Python, "global" really means "module-level" - there's nothing >> like a "true" global namespace. > > Isn't that __main__?
Well there you go, I just learned something new. I was going to say "No, every module has its own __main__", and say that the only truly global namespace was builtins, which you really shouldn't mess with. But then I decided to just try it, and blow me down, it works! [st...@sylar ~]$ cat set_parrot.py import __main__ __main__.parrot = "Norwegian Blue" [st...@sylar ~]$ cat get_parrot.py import __main__ print __main__.parrot [st...@sylar ~]$ python Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov 6 2007, 16:54:01) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import set_parrot >>> import get_parrot Norwegian Blue I'm sure there are all sorts of odd problems this would lead to in large scale code, but it's a neat trick to know. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
