How do I set a top level variable in Python?

Let's say I have a script file, like so:

foo = 1

def bar():
    return foo

# The Main function for this script.
def main(a开发者_Go百科rgv=None):
    foo = 2
    print bar()
    return

This prints 1. Is there any way to set the value of foo at the script-level from main?

foo = 1

def bar():
    return foo

# The Main function for this script.
def main(argv=None):
    global foo
    foo = 2
    print bar()
    return

This is in the python documentation.

def main(argv=None):
    global foo
    foo = 2
    print bar()
    return