Aahz wrote: > > http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node8.html#SECTION008100000000000000000 > > That addresses the technical mechanism, but not the use case at hand. the use case was "some easy or straight-forward way of sharing a global instance across modules". the answer is "put it in a module". end of story. followups to comp.lang.python, thank you. </F>