In <579a15bf-83c0-4228-9079-bbaac1222...@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Marius Gedminas <mged...@gmail.com> writes:
>On Sep 4, 9:29=A0pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> The only solution I can come up with is to define a "dummy module", >> say _config.py, which contains only upper-case variables representing >> these global switches, and is imported by all the other modules in >> the application with the line "from _config import *". =A0During the >> early stages of the run, the script inspects the command-line flags, >> and if it finds a --continuing flag, it sets the variable >> _config.CONTINUATION_MODE to True. =A0(The last point implies that >> these variables are not strictly speaking read-only, since they >> most be set at the beginning of the run. =A0But after this initial >> setting, they should remain read-only.) >Be very very careful about "from _config import *". If you import >a module that, in turn, imports _config this way, before you set >the initial values, that module will already have made its own copies >of all the variables and thus will not see the correct values. Good point. That's another reason for going for something like Nick's solution earlier in this thread. Thanks, kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
