I have a stupid python question. I'm hoping somebody can answer it. I'm not
clear
on whether it's a failure of my understanding or a bug in Python or both.
The problem involves failed visibility of updates to global variables. I
have narrowed it down to a small example. I am running python 1.5.2. I'm
getting desperate, because I'm stuck until this is solved.
I have two python files
main.py:
===
import broken;
somevar = None;
if __name__ == "__main__":
global somevar
somevar = 1;
broken.showme();
===
broken.py:
===
import main
def showme():
print main.somevar
===
My question: Showme() prints "None". Why doesn't showme() print the value
"1"?
What's going on here?