Here is the situation: $ ls test $ cd test $ ls __init__.py data.py $ cat __init__.py
$ cat data.py DATA = {} $ cd .. $ python >>> import os >>> from test.data import DATA >>> DATA['something'] = 33 >>> os.chdir('test') >>> from data import DATA as NEW_DATA >>> DATA {'something': 33} >>> NEW_DATA {} Is this a bug? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list