(I forgot to post this with my last post.) Also, I don't understand any part of the following example, so there's no specific line that's confusing me. Thanks for the help btw.
var = 42 def myfunc(): var = 90 print "before:", var myfunc() print "after:", var def myfunc(): global var var = 90 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list