Visibility of global variables in imported modules

Question

I\'ve run into a bit of a wall importing modules in a Python script. I\'ll do my best to describe the error, why I run into it, and why I\'m tying this particular approach t

Answer 1

Since globals are module specific, you can add the following function to all imported modules, and then use it to:

• Add singular variables (in dictionary format) as globals for those
• Transfer your main module globals to it .

addglobals = lambda x: globals().update(x)

Then all you need to pass on current globals is:

import module

module.addglobals(globals())

Answer 2

Since I haven't seen it in the answers above, I thought I would add my simple workaround, which is just to add a global_dict argument to the function requiring the calling module's globals, and then pass the dict into the function when calling; e.g:

# external_module
def imported_function(global_dict=None):
    print(global_dict["a"])


# calling_module
a = 12
from external_module import imported_function
imported_function(global_dict=globals())

>>> 12