On 30/01/2014 22:46, Marc Aymerich wrote:
Dear all,

I have a very simple module

glic3@e4200:# cat globalstate.py
GLOBAL = 0

def update():
     GLOBAL += 1


however it doesn't work!!

glic3@e4200:# python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import globalstate
globalstate.update()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "globalstate.py", line 4, in update
     GLOBAL += 1
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'GLOBAL' referenced before assignment


And I don't know why :(
Anyone ?

Thanks!!


You must tell the update function that GLOBAL is global.

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