[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course: you can do *anything* in Python. I'm not sure this is to be recommended, but since you ask ... if you haveI have a variable that I want to make global across all modules, i.e. I want it added to the builtin namespace. Is there a way to do this?
# mymod.py print myname
then in some other module (and here specifically in the interactive interpreter) you can bind a value to "myname" in __builtins__ and it will be seen by mymod.py when it's imported:
>>> __builtins__.myname = "MyValue" >>> myname 'MyValue' >>> import mymod MyValue >>>
Having said all that, you have to be careful, since it's necessary to explicity assign to __builtins__.myname to change the value - if you just assign to myname then you create a new myname in the module's global namespace that will make the name in __builtins__ inaccessible.
So, what with that plus the way the names automagically appear it's probably something to relegate to the "definitely not best practice" category.
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