Question

I know this question has been tossed around much but still it’s not very clear to me.
I have a file ‘vmsupport.py’. Among it’s many functions, it has one in particular where it needs to add a new element to a global dictionary ‘netpathdict’.I have declared

netpathdict={} 

at the start of the script because I want to use this dictionary in another function in an another file ‘core.py’. Contents of the vmsupport.py file:

  storefile="%s/netsummary_%s.html" % (full_paths[1].rsplit('/',1)[0],build)
  netpathdict[build] = storefile
  self.logger.debug("storefile at %s key of dictionary is %s" %(build,netpathdict[build]))

contents of ‘core.py’ file:

def view_networksummary(request,build):
 result_file= netpathdict[build]
 f = open(result_file,'r')
 return HttpResponse(f)
 f.close()    

So, my question is, how exactly do I import the dictionary to core.py and use it and how would I be sure that the dictionary in use is the edited one.(Actually the vmsupport.py file works on a daemon that continuously adds elements to the dictionary. Hence, it’s NOT a one time affair )
Thank you

Answer 1

how exactly do I import the dictionary to core.py and use it and how would I be sure that the dictionary in use is the edited one.

You don’t. You import the containing module and mutate the object contained in the attribute.

import foo
foo.bar.append('baz')