import and shared global variables

Hi, I'm implementing a plugin-based program, structured like the example below (where m1 in the main module, loading m2 as a plugin). I wanted to use a single global variable (m1.glob in the example) to store some config data that the plugins can access. However, the output shown belown seems to

import and shared global variables

Hi, I'm implementing a plugin-based program, structured like the example below (where m1 in the main module, loading m2 as a plugin). I wanted to use a single global variable (m1.glob in the example) to store some config data that the plugins can access. However, the output shown belown seem

Re: import and shared global variables

Ah, thanks everybody! I had thought that, although the name was set to "__main__", the module that was stored in sys.modules was m1 nevertheless, not a copy. Well, having to write "import m1" inside m1.py seems a bit peculiar - it's probably nicer to keep the "__main__" module free from stuff th