Sharing variables across threads

Question

already tried to solve my issue via existing posts - however, did not manage to. Thx for your help in advance.

The objective is to share a variable across threads. Please find below the code. It keeps printing '1' for the accounting variable, although I want it to print '2'. Any suggestions why?

main.py:

account = 1

import threading
import cfg
import time

if __name__ == "__main__":
    thread_cfg = threading.Thread(target=cfg.global_cfg(),args= ())
    thread_cfg.start()
    time.sleep(5)
    print(account)

cfg.py:

def global_cfg():
    global account
    account = 2
    return()

Answer 1

Globals are not shared across files.

If we disregard locks and other synchronization primitives, just put account inside cfg.py:

account = 1
def global_cfg():
    global account
    account = 2
    return

And inside main.py:

import threading
import time
import cfg

if __name__ == "__main__":
    thread_cfg = threading.Thread(target=cfg.global_cfg,args= ())
    print(cfg.account)
    thread_cfg.start()
    time.sleep(5)
    print(cfg.account)

Running it:

> py main.py
1
2

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In more advanced cases, you should use Locks, Queues and other structures, but that's out of scope.