accessing module global vars by name

[Martin Drautzburg]

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 ?

IOW how can I write something like

# xxx.py

for varName in ("foo", "bar"):
magic.varName = 1

so I can later refer to them as

# yyy.py
import xxx
x = xxx.foo
y = xxx.bar

 

[Steven Bethard]

IOW how can I write something like

# xxx.py

for varName in ("foo", "bar"):
magic.varName = 1

I think you want to use the dict returned by globals(). Modifying this
dict can add/remove names from the global scope.[1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
Traceback (most recent call last):

>>> for var_name in ['foo', 'bar']:

.... globals()[var_name] = True
....

>>> foo True
>>> bar True
>>> del globals()['foo']
>>> foo

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'foo' is not defined

Steve

[1] As an aside, be careful not to try the same thing with locals().
locals() returns a dict that won't modify names in the local scope.

 

[Peter Hansen]

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