#🔒 How to import variables from one python file to another

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limpid dock
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I am working with python in vscode, connected to a repo in gitlab. I was under the impression that if I had 2 .py files and a __init__.py if at the top of one .py file I import the other, I can do from file1 import var1 and then I would have var1 accessible for use in my 2nd python file. This matches the stack overflow answer I looked up, but I am still getting an error NameError: name 'var1' is not defined. Any ideas as to what im doing wrong?

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jaunty sage
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Could you show the structure? With how you said it, the variable would be only accessible in the init file (so when you import the package name), not "in [your] 2nd python file".

Like file1.py, file2.py, __init__.py - to see the var1 in file2 you'd need to do the import in file2, not in init

limpid dock
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sure hold on

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all 3 files there

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and the file structure

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and then the error I get

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oh sheesh

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I think I fixed it

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I didnt realize I had to run file1.py first

potent hamlet
limpid dock
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oh yeah I never saved it either

potent hamlet
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this white dot next to the file name means it has unsaved changes, right?

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limpid dock
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I just made all the files at once

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and then I only ran file2

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oh

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maybe, I never noticed that

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/close

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!close

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