modifying a variable from python module in second script for function in first script

Question

a.py looks like this:

user = '0'
xml = '<int>%s</int>'

What I'm trying to do is have it so I can use a second script, b.py like this:

import a
a.user = '4343'
print a.xml

Is this possible? Because I haven't been able to do it. I always get the first variable in the other script. I would rather hold the XML in the second script, because it's so long and makes scrolling through code annoying.

abarnert · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-28 00:44:55Z

1

Yes, it's possible—and, in fact, you're doing it.

It's hard to tell, because you don't have anything that actually uses a.user. But that's easy to fix:

a.py:

user = '0'
xml = '<int>%s</int>'

def foo():
    return xml % (user,)

b.py:

import a
a.user = '4343'
print a.foo()

Now run it:

$ python b.py
<int>4343</int>

Exactly what you wanted, right?

answered Feb 28, 2013 at 0:44

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