global variable update

alepicca
alepicca Registered Posts: 6 ✭✭✭✭

Hi,

I need to set an automatic update of some date variables (the update is going to be recursive; each month it is going to add a month), which then will be used in a SQL receipts flow.

At the moment my solution is to create a date variable (dictionary containing the desired dates) and a Python script (inside a Python Notebook) that perform the update of the element of the dictionary, giving as output a dictionary of updated dates (formatted as unicode and so which can be used in the SQL receipt). I will then run the script and the SQL flow in a scenario, running each month.

The only thing I am missing is how to save back the dictionary into a project variable, inside the Python script.

Does such a function exist? Am I using a correct strategy?

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards,

Alessandro

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  • Clément_Stenac
    Clément_Stenac Dataiker, Dataiku DSS Core Designer, Registered Posts: 753 Dataiker
    edited July 17 Answer ✓

    Hi,

    Assuming that you want to update the variable "stuff" in your project, use the following code:

    import dataiku
    
    client = dataiku.api_client()
    project = client.get_project("MYPROJECT")
    
    variables = project.get_variables()
    variables["standard"]["stuff"] = "my new value for stuff variable"
    project.set_variables(variables)

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