Can modules have properties the same way that objects can?

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As PEP 562 has been implemented in Python >= 3.7, now we can do this

file: module.py

def __getattr__(name):
    if name == 'y':
        return 3
    raise AttributeError(f"module '{__name__}' has no attribute '{name}'")

other = 4

usage:

>>> import module
>>> module.y
3
>>> module.other
4
>>> module.nosuch
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "module.py", line 4, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(f"module '{__name__}' has no attribute '{name}'")
AttributeError: module 'module' has no attribute 'nosuch'

Note that if you omit the raise AttributeError in the __getattr__ function, it means the function ends with return None, then the module.nosuch will get a value of None.

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