Global variables?

[Russell Blau]

"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'


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