In <hdf9bq$59...@panix3.panix.com> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>In article <hdf63i$cm...@reader1.panix.com>, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote:
>>
>>The subject line says it all.
>You are probably trying to remove a screw with a hammer
Worse: I'm trying to write Perl using Python!
>-- why don't you
>tell us what you really want to do and we'll come up with a Pythonic
>solution?
Because the problem that gave rise to this question is insignificant.
I would want to know the answer in any case. *Can* it be done in
Python at all?
OK, if you must know:
With Perl one can set a module-global variable before the module
is loaded. This provides a very handy backdoor during testing.
E.g.
# in t/some_test.t script
...
BEGIN { $My::Module::TESTING = 1; }
use My::Module;
...
and in My/Module.pm:
package My::Module;
our $TESTING ||= 0; # set to 0 unless already initialized to !0
...
if ($TESTING) {
# throw testing switches
}
This does not work in Python, because setting my.module.TESTING
variable can happen only after my.module has been imported, but by
this point, the module's top-level code has already been executed,
so setting my.module.TESTING would have no effect. But one way to
get a similar effect would be to have my.module set its TESTING
(or whatever) variable equal to the value of this variable in the
*importing* module.
kynn
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