global namescape of multilevel hierarchy

[Sakcee]

Hi

I have a script e.g.

import package.module

ID = "55"

package.module.checkID()

now in package.module.checkID function, i wnat to know what is the ID
defiend in the calling scriipt
if I dot globals(), it returns only items in module. is there a way
to get the script level namesapce
thanks

[Ben Cartwright]

Sakcee wrote:

now in package.module.checkID function, i wnat to know what is the ID
defiend in the calling scriipt

It's almost always a really bad idea to kludge scopes like this. If
you need to access a variable from the caller's scope in a module
function, make it an argument to that function. That's what arguments
are for in the first place!

But, if you must, you can use the inspect module:

import inspect
def checkID():
ID = inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_locals['ID']
print ID

--Ben