Question

Basically, I’d like to force a variable, lets call him jim into a plugin I load as a global, before the plugin loads, for instance:

load_plugin('blah', variables={'jim':1}) #For instance

And then inside blah.py:

print jim #prints 1

Is there any easy way to do this? Not a big deal if its not in the standard library.

Answer 1

You could use the __import__ function. It lets you override the globals.
for instance:

__import__('blah', dict(jim=1, **globals()))