Quoth MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com>: > er wrote: > > Simple question, I think: Is there a way to make a completely global > > variable across a slew of modules? If not, what is the canonical > > way to keep a global state? The purpose of this is to try to prevent > > circular module imports, which just sort of seems nasty. Thank you! > > > Simple answer: no.
I'm wondering a little about posting this, but...well, the answer actually isn't "no". It's just that it's not something you should _ever_ do. The trick is to assign the value to the __builtins__ module... --RDM PS: I know this because Zope used to do it. Fortunately they wised up and refactored that code to be more sane. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
