Hello everyone Consider the following two simple files. The first is my "program", the other a file holding some global variable definitions and code shared by this program and a "twin" program (not shown here):
program1.py: ------------ from shared import * fun() print "at top level: " + global_var shared.py: ---------- global_var = "original value" def fun(): global global_var global_var = "changed value!" print "inside fun(): " + global_var return ------ When I run program1.py, I get inside fun(): changed value! at top level: original value! How can I get the changed value to "persist" in such a way that it isn't reset when control leaves fun()? Why is it even reset in the first place? After all, the module has already been imported (and the initialization of global_var executed) *before* fun() runs, right? Any clarification and help in solving this would be great Thanks Mack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list