Accessing Static Variiables in an IronPython Class in seperate file

globaltest.py

class GlobalTest():
    
    def __init__(self):
      pass  
    
    global globalTestVariable
    
    globalTestVariable = "My Old Value"

staticVariable.py

import sys

#append the path to sys
sys.path.append("C:\\mymodules")

#this is the name of the fil in my modules
import globaltest

#access the global static variable with the following syntas
globaltest.globalTestVariable = "My New Value"