[Tutor] oh, BTW-

[Andy W]

Hi

> I want to make a variable global so it shoes up for functions
> (subroutines) without bothering to pass it to them- makes coding much
> easier, but I did not read how to do this. Either someone slip me a
> tip, or point me at the right part of themanual, ok?

Some time before referencing the variable within your function (preferably
at the very start), write "global variablename".
eg.

def function_name():
   global variable_name
   #...

Andy

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