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Gnarlodious wrote:

> On Jun 23, 7:59 am, Noah Hall wrote:
>> >>>from a import x
> 
> I'm doing that:
> import Module.Data as Data

from Module import Data

There, you saved three more characters .

> However I end up doing it in every submodule, so it seems a little
> redundant. I wish I could load the variable in the parent program and
> have it be available in all submodules. Am I missing something?

You can modify the builtin namespace:

$ cat module.py
print data
$ cat main.py
import __builtin__
__builtin__.data = 42

import module
$ python main.py
42
$

But I don't think it's a good idea. Remember that "explicit is better than 
implicit".