sharing data between modules

[Bruce Edge]

In article <99fvbq$mmg$1 at panix3.panix.com>, "Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com>
wrote:

> In article <20010323.073801.76065818.26070 at mead.troikanetworks.com>,
> Bruce Edge <bedge at troikanetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>As a C++ guy I tend to put each class in a different file. In python
>>this gives me a different module for each class. My app uses this group
>>of classes, ie: modules, what's the best way to share data between them?
>>
>>Currently I register the classes with each other using class static
>>data,  so they all have a reference to each other. Ideally, I'd like to
>>be able to have a few globals that every module can see.  
> 
> If you're sharing instance data, references are the best way to go.  If
> it's truly global data, one of the advantages of Python modules is that
> they *are* namespaces.  So either create a globals.py if variables are
> shared across multiple classes or set variables in your class modules if
> it's specific to a single class.

global.py! Argh, it so simple, why didn't I think of that. 
Probably because my sum total experience with python is almost a month
:-) 

Thank you! That makes my life much easier (and my code smaller).

-Bruce.