[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Hi, > > I have the following code: > > colorIndex = 0;
You don't need the ; > > def test(): > print colorIndex; Idem. > This won't work. Why ? Or more exactly : for which definition of "won't work" ? (hint: this code prints 0 on sys.stdout - I don't know what else you where expecting...) > But it works if i do this: > > colorIndex = 0; > > def test(): > global colorIndex; > print colorIndex; Have mercy : keep those ; out of here. > My question is why do I have to explicit declaring 'global' for > 'colorIndex'? Can't python automatically looks in the global scope > when i access 'colorIndex' in my function 'test()'? It does. You only need to declare a name global in a function if you intend to rebind the name in the function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
