mysterious buggy behavior

[Andrea Griffini]

On 8 Jan 2005 20:40:37 -0800, sean_mcilroy at yahoo.com (Sean McIlroy)
wrote:

>def newGame():
>    BOARD = [blank]*9
>    for x in topButtons+midButtons+botButtons: x['text'] = ''

Do you know that "BOARD" here is a local variable and has nothing
to do with the global BOARD ? You can change that by doing either

     BOARD[:] = [blank]*9

or

     global BOARD
     BOARD = [blank]*9

HTH
Andrea