MackS wrote: > print "inside fun(): " + global_var ... > 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
It _does_ persist and it _isn't_ reset. Try: import shared print shared.global_var at the end of your program, and you will see that you have bound the identifier global_var in your main program to the same immutable object that the identifier global_var in shared was bound to, and then you _changed_ the identifier global_var in shared to point to a different object. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
