global variables or inheritence

[Thomas Rasmussen]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Massung <jmassung at magpiesystems.com> writes:

  Jeff> Sorry if I get this wrong... but I thought you'd just import
  Jeff> your other file.

  Jeff> Example:

  Jeff> # File1.py myVar = 2


  Jeff> # File2.py import File1 print File1.myVar #should print 2

Well that was also what I thought, but the following program wont
execute:
testprog1.py:
import os, sys, string, testprog2
def main():
    print 'hello'
    myvar = 2
    testprog2.second()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

testprog2.py:
import os, sys, string, testprog1
def second():
    print testprog1.myvar
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print 'nope'

    
and then I execute python testprog1.py and get the following error:

22:03 simpsons at lada% python testprog1.py                               ~/python
hejsa
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "testprog1.py", line 7, in ?
    main()
  File "testprog1.py", line 5, in main
    testprog2.second()
  File "testprog2.py", line 3, in second
    print testprog1.myvar
AttributeError: myvar

:-(

Thomas

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