[Tutor] while with function

[fleet@teachout.org]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Magnus Lycka wrote:

> At 15:09 2002-11-17 -0500, fleet@teachout.org wrote:
> >I like the concept of "while 1:" but I've had problems getting it to break
> >properly.  I suspect I'm having "scope" problems.
>
> Loops and if statements don't introduce new scopes as
> { } does in C etc. You only nest scopes with nested
> functions, nested classes, methods and lambdas.
> (I.e. if you type def, class or lambda inside a class
> or function.)

I have two functions:

def add()
    s_name=raw_input("Surname: ")
    # several more lines of the same
    y=1
    while y>0:
       get_list()

def get_list()
   print "1. Surname: "+s_name
   # several more lines of the same
   # read option while loop here

I had to add "global s_name, ..., ..., etc." to add() in order to get
get_list() to display the variables.  I tried moving the definition of
get_list() ahead of the add() definition; but that made no difference.

add(), of course, is called by main_menu().

Is making the add() variables global the proper solution here?

Regards,
				- fleet -