accessing module global vars by name

[Peter Hansen]

Martin Drautzburg wrote:
> Withing a module I can assign a value to a global var by assigning to
> it in the outermost scope. Fine.
> 
> But how can I do this if the attribute name itself is kept in a
> variable. Once the module is loaded I can access the module's
> namespace no problem, but inside the module the dictionary is not yet
> present right ?

Look into the builtin function globals()...

-Peter