[pygame] setting + modifying a variable for use across the entire application

[Sean Wolfe <ether.joe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everybody,

Upon initialization I'd like to set an assets path, which will be
different depending on platform. I'd like to set it one time upon
startup, and then have every module import it automatically with the
changed value. However since modules are loaded once and persisted in
their original state, I can't get the new value in the new module,
even if I reload(settings) .

The best option I can think of is actually creating a new module as a
new file, then importing that new module in every subsequent piece
that needs it. But I was hoping to do something a little more elegant
than that. Do we have any sort of application-level variables which
are muteable? Like an application-level memory space?


----------
main.py:
import settings

if android:
    settings.assets = './assets'
else:
    settings.assets = 'c:/my/sources/in/development/bla/bla'


then in a future module something like this:

----------
gameloop.py:
import settings

ASSETS_DIRECTORY = settings.assets
player_img = pygame.image.load(ASSETS_DIRECTORY + 'player.png')




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