On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In some code I'm writing, I ran into a problem with the variable updown. I > want it to be global. I cut down the code to near the essentials. I set a > variable abc, and it seems to be happy with an almost identical use of > updown. Where's this going wrong? Although there's an implication of a > yyyy/mm/dd date, I omitted any check, so just enter a number.
You don't seem to have posted the actual code you used to generate the traceback - there is no 'print updown' in sync_high2low_files(). Anyway this probably explains your problem: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/how-do-you-set-a-global-variable-in-a-function.htm Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
