Global variables

[Terry Reedy]

"Richard Pasco" <richardpasco at quintessa.org> wrote in message
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> As a relative newbie to programming in general I know what local and
global
> variables are, but I can't seem to get local ones back into my main
program.
> What exactly does the return function do?
> Does it "push" the variable into my main program?

Return is a statement.  Please read the docs (and the tutorial). Or
enter
>>> help('return')
at the interactive prompt.

>And then how can I get them into another function without
> making them global?

call the function directly, write the values into a mutable global, or
return them

TJR