On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Henré Botha <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks, noobie here. Just started playing with pyglet two nights ago.
> Adoring it.
>
> I'm struggling a little with event handlers, and how/where to use them in
> actual code (as opposed to didactic examples).
>
> The problem I am experiencing is inside a function definition:
> initialising a variable before the event handler bit, and then referencing
> said variable inside the event handler, causes an UnboundLocalError
> exception ("local variable 'select' referenced before assignment").
>
> Why doesn't this work? C-C-C-CODE EXAMPLE: http://pastebin.com/5VYYp8ay
>
> Any help appreciated. :)
>
>
You need to place a 'global settings' statement inside you event handler,
to inform Python that you want to assign to the variable in the outer
scope, rather than creating a new variable in the inner scope.

-- 
Tristam MacDonald
Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com
http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/

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