[Tutor] Returning a variable from a module

[Glen Wheeler]

> <..snip!..>
>
> It seems to work, but when I save this code into a file called
> configlib.py and try to get values from the variable config. It doesnt
> seem to work.
>
> import configlib
> configlib.import('.gamerc')
>
> This leads to my question: How do I access a variable that I have created
> within a module which I have imported?
>

  Hmmm, well it's as simple as this...

  def dosomething(args):
    ..code..
    return result ## important!

  So, in your code, just return that config dictionary.  Try to avoid global
variables, as they aren't too crash hot.

##
global config
config = {}
for n in range(1, len(configList)):
  splitString = string.split(configList[n], '=')
  config[splitString[0]] = splitString[1]
##

  Would become...

##
config = {}
for n in range(1, len(configList)):
  splitString = string.split(configList[n], '=')
  config[splitString[0]] = splitString[1]
return config
##

  And would be called like this...

import configlib
config = configlib.import('.gamerc')

  Like magic, the variable config now has that dictionary you made in the
other module.

  Quick question about your code - shouldn't this...

for n in range(0, len(configList)):
  configList[n] = string.rstrip(configList[n])
  configList[n] = string.lstrip(configList[n])
  configList[n] = string.replace(configList[n], '\012', '')

  Be...

for n in range(0, (len(configList)-1)):
configList[n] = string.rstrip(configList[n])
configList[n] = string.lstrip(configList[n])
configList[n] = string.replace(configList[n], '\012', '')

  ??  Either that or I really am poor tonight :)

  HTH,
  Glen.