How to programmatically set a global (module) variable?

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Here is a better way to do it:

import sys
definitions = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 123.4}
module = sys.modules[__name__]
for name, value in definitions.iteritems():
    setattr(module, name, value)

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