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Hi,

I have one "master" program which calls a small program. In this small
program I want to work with a value from the "master" program. But I
always get this error: NameError: global name 'T' is not defined

How can I define a global variable?

Thanks for your help.
Regards, Tom

Tom <> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have one "master" program which calls a small program. In this small
> program I want to work with a value from the "master" program. But I
> always get this error: NameError: global name 'T' is not defined
>
> How can I define a global variable?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Regards, Tom
>


master.py:
my_global_var=1234

small.py:
import master
....
my_local_var=master.my_global_var * 3.14

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Tom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one "master" program which calls a small program. In this small
> program I want to work with a value from the "master" program. But I
> always get this error: NameError: global name 'T' is not defined
>
> How can I define a global variable?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Regards, Tom

You can't (well, there is a way, but you probably don't want to be
messing with that).

By "program" I assume you mean "module". You can do something like:

#master.py
T = 'Some value'

#small.py
import master
doSomething(master.T)

However, if master.py is also importing small.py, you'll get a circular
reference, which may cause hard to track bugs, in which case it's best
to have a third module for common (global) variables (and functions, if
you'd like), and have both master.py and small.py import that.

jf