I figured this out - thanks to something Manuel Jacob said -
"You should be able to fix the error by moving the line to the module toplevel."

You can add a global variable to a module top level easily and pass it along to the backend.

Thank You Manuel !

Shubha


On Monday, January 2, 2017 6:48 AM, Shubha Ramani <shubharamani@yahoo.com> wrote:


Not "all the way to the Background. Typo. Meant to say all the way to the backend".
How do I pass pyframe pycode bits to the backend at runtime ?

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> On Jan 2, 2017, at 6:47 AM, Shubha Ramani <shubharamani@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've really been struggling with this. For instance pycode from pyframe. I would like to pass along a data structure containing pycode tidbits all the way to the background but cannot figure out a way.
>
> Any clues would be appreciated !
>
> Shubha