Using global variables between files?

Question

I\'m bit confused about how the global variables work. I have a large project, with around 50 files, and I need to define global variables for all those files.

What

Answer 1

I just came across this post and thought of posting my solution, just in case of anyone being in the same situation as me, where there are quite some files in the developed program, and you don't have the time to think through the whole import sequence of your modules (if you didn't think of that properly right from the start, such as I did).

In such cases, in the script where you initiate your global(s), simply code a class which says like:

class My_Globals:
  def __init__(self):
    self.global1 = "initial_value_1"
    self.global2 = "initial_value_2"
    ...

and then use, instead of the line in the script where you initiated your globals, instead of

global1 = "initial_value_1"

use

globals = My_Globals()

I was then able to retrieve / change the values of any of these globals via

globals.desired_global

in any script, and these changes were automatically also applied to all the other scripts using them. All worked now, by using the exact same import statements which previously failed, due to the problems mentioned in this post / discussion here. I simply thought of global object's properties being changing dynamically without the need of considering / changing any import logic, in comparison to simple importing of global variables, and that definitely was the quickest and easiest (for later access) approach to solve this kind of problem for me.