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Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Sat Feb 8 18:41:15 EST 2003 
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 16:58, Sam Marrocco wrote:
> Is it possible to make a variable "super-global", meaning that it is 
> visible to *all* modules of a python program (I'm well aware of the 
> pitfalls to such techniques)?

Well, I believe you can assign values to __builtins__, but it will only
work from the __main__ module.  At least, last time I tried fiddling in
such ways that's how I remember it.

If I have functions that, for that application, deserve to be like
builtins, I usually put them in one module and do a "from XXX import
*".  For instance, when doing web programming I like to have a function
for escaping HTML available, and I don't like importing every little
function.  Doing that one import is much easier to work with than
messing with __builtins__.

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