> I have some common data directories, like > > /home/dave/mygg/gg1.3/logs > /home/dave/mygg/gg1.3/data > /home/dave/mygg/gg1.3/datacore > /home/dave/mygg/gg1.3/arch_data > > which increasing numbers of scripts are accessing.
have you considered making the root directory an environment variable? That way you can read the value (os.getenv) at the start of the script. And if you ever need to move the structure you can simply change the environment value. It also means different users can use their own structures by defining their own environment value... > Somewhere I read about importing a script to define common globals for > all the scripts that import it. > > I tried this, and failed - the variable was only valid for the module, > to be expected really :) ############ # File myvars.py value1 = 42 value2 = 'spam' ############# # File: prog1.py import myvars localvar = myvars.value1 myvars.value2 = 'Alan' ############## # File prog2.py import myvars newvar = myvars.value2 print myvars.value1 - 27 ############## Does that help? Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
