Reading Global Counters in Streaming?

[Ryan Rosario <uc...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am writing a Hadoop Streaming job in Python. I know that I can
increment counters by writing a special format to sys.stderr. Is it
possible to *read* the values of counters from my Python program? I am
using the global counter as the denominator of a probability, and must
have this value available to all reducers. Is this possible, and how
would I do it in Python?

Thanks,
Ryan