Elliot Temple wrote:
> I want to write a function, foo, so the following works:
>
> def main():
> n = 4
> foo(n)
> print n
>
> #it prints 7
What's wrong with:
def foo(n):
return 7
def main():
n = 4
n = foo(n)
print n
Anything else (including the tricks involving mutable objects that will
no doubt be posted) will result in ugly, hard to maintain code.