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Dusan Ranisavljev
Dusan Ranisavljev

Reputation: 11

Creation of global variables?

For the code below I have some doubt.

def spam():
    global eggs
    eggs = 'spam'
eggs ='global'
spam()
print(eggs)

The result is spam. My questions are as follows: Do we have two global variables in that code? Why it executes only eggs = 'spam' but not eggs = 'global'? Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 66

Answers (3)

TMW6315
TMW6315

Reputation: 43

The result is spam because you ran the procedure after you assigned 'global' to eggs. The procedure assigns 'spam' to eggs.

Upvotes: 0

Anish Gupta
Anish Gupta

Reputation: 101

It does execute eggs = 'global', its value gets changed again by eggs = 'spam'.

Your spam function accesses the global scope and changes eggs to 'spam'.

Upvotes: 1

kojiro
kojiro

Reputation: 77059

You only have one global variable, named eggs in that code. You assign a value to it twice, first with the string 'global' and again with the string 'spam' in the function.

I think the term global is a bit of a misnomer in Python. Names are only global to the module, so if you tried to access eggs from another module, it would not exist unless you imported it.

Upvotes: 3

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