Global variables?

[RiGGa]

Russell Blau wrote:

> "RiGGa" <rigga at hasnomail.com> wrote in message
> news:9VECc.21042$NK4.3479907 at stones.force9.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having problems getting my script to recognize global variables and
>> each time I run the script I always get this warning:
>>
>> SyntaxWarning: name 'getdata' is assigned to before global declaration
>>
>> The structure of my script is below:
>>
>
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>> import urllib
>> import sys
>> global myvariable
> 
> This is in the wrong place -- you need this in the function where you are
> referencing the global name (see below).
> 
>> myvariable = 0
>>
>> class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
>>
>>         def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
>>
>>                 'Do some stuff here and reassign a value to myvariable'
>>
>>
>>         def handle_data(self, data):
> 
>                   global myvariable
>>
>>                 if myvariable == 1:
>>                         'Do some more stuff here'
> 
> 
Thank you!!!