Support Desk wrote:
I am trying to assign a variable using an if / else statement like so:
If condition1:
Variable = something
If condition2:
Variable = something else
Do stuff with variable.
But the variable assignment doesn't survive outside the if statement. Is
there any better way to assign variables using an if statement or exception
so I don't have to write two almost identical if statements. This is
probably a dumb question.
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Is this test in a def? If in-line there should be no problem if Var is
done as this:
var= ' '
test= '2'
if test == '1':
var= 'choice 1'
elif test == '2':
var= 'choice 2'
elif test == '3':
var= 'default'
#endif
#do something with var
print var
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if inside a def:
var= 0
def xxx():
global var
var += 1 # whatever, if var was set to text, do text things
#possible other commands
#enddef
# somewhere below in 'main' (runtime portion of code)
xxx()
print var #use var, etc. etc.
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It is ALWAYS good form to prime a var before using.
Steve
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