I "think" global is broken

[Larry Bates]

The following code works as expected.

class test:
    global _trace
    def __init__(self):
        if _trace: print "entering test.__init__"
        return

global _trace
_trace=1
x=test()


Now if I move the class into a separate module called test.py
and change the main program it no longer works

from test import *
global _trace, _debug
_trace=1
x=test()

I get undefined global error

I just don't believe that this is the way it should work.
I understand that in this simple example I could
do an import test and (according to other posts
I've read it should work).  But in a real world
example the external module has 8 classes in it
(and growing).  It just doesn't seem right that I
would need to split it into 8 different modules.

Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,
Larry Bates
lbates at swamisoft.com