packages, globals, and __builtin__

[Christian Tanzer]

Laura Creighton <lac at cd.chalmers.se> wrote:

> I'm making a package, with one class per file name.  I want a global
> variable to keep state in which I can access from any module.  So I
> import __builtin__ and assign something to __builtin__.StateVariable.
> This works great.  But I am feeling squeamish about this.  Should I be?

I'd use a module inside the package or the package itself as namespace
for `StateVariable'. 

Using __builtin__ will work great as long as nobody else does the same
thing. Then interesting things will start to happen.

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