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 "id": "creating-a-module-level-global-on-rp2350-core",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Creating a module-level global on RP2350 core 0 causes spurious NameError on core 1",
 "symptom": "Core 1 read one unchanging global 40,000 times and failed 104 times with NameError: name 'TARGET' isn't defined \u2014 a 0.26% failure rate on a variable that plainly existed.",
 "hw": [
  "rp2350",
  "pico2"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Read shared configuration from a module-level global on the second core while the first core continues running ordinary code",
 "date": "2026-08-19",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}