[Tutor] Global var not defined?

2013-08-27 Thread leam hall
Could use some help with this. Python 2.4.3 on RHEL 5.x. In the functions file that gets imported: def append_customer(line_list): global customers cust = line_list[0] // list with Customer info in [0] cust = clean_word(cust) // Trims white space if

Re: [Tutor] Global var not defined?

2013-08-27 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/08/13 18:58, leam hall wrote: def append_customer(line_list): global customers cust = line_list[0] // list with Customer info in [0] cust = clean_word(cust) // Trims white space if len(cust) and cust not in customers:

Re: [Tutor] Global var not defined?

2013-08-27 Thread Prasad, Ramit
leam hall wrote: Could use some help with this. Python 2.4.3 on RHEL 5.x. In the functions file that gets imported: def append_customer(line_list):     global customers     cust = line_list[0] // list with Customer info in [0]     cust = clean_word(cust)  // Trims white

Re: [Tutor] Global var not defined?

2013-08-27 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/08/13 19:50, leam hall wrote: Well, I'm happy to change things but my python is only so good. And much of that is based off of shell programming. You will need to change something because what you have won;t work. The question is what to change? What the data looks like is fairly

Re: [Tutor] Global var not defined?

2013-08-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 28/08/13 03:58, leam hall wrote: Could use some help with this. Python 2.4.3 on RHEL 5.x. In the functions file that gets imported: def append_customer(line_list): global customers Globals are not globally global, they are global to the module. Otherwise variables defined in