Calling variable defined inside one function from another function

Question

if I have this    def oneFunction lists       category random choice list lists keys         word random choice lists category    def anotherFunction        for letter in word                problem is here         print     end        I have previously defined lists  so oneFunction lists  works perfectly   My problem is calling word in line 6  I have tried to define word outside the first function with the same word random choice lists category   definition  but that makes word always the same  even if I call oneFunction lists    I want to be able to  every time I call the first function and then the second  have a different word   Can I do this without defining that word outside the oneFunction lists

User · Accepted Answer

Yes  you should think of defining both your functions in a Class  and making word a member  This is cleaner   class Spam      def oneFunction self lists           category random choice list lists keys             self word random choice lists category        def anotherFunction self           for letter in self word                            print  quot   quot   end  quot   quot    Once you make a Class you have to Instantiate it to an Object and access the member functions s   Spam   s oneFunction lists  s anotherFunction    Another approach would be to make oneFunction return the word so that you can use oneFunction instead of word in anotherFunction  gt  gt  gt  def oneFunction lists           category random choice list lists keys             return random choice lists category          gt  gt  gt  def anotherFunction            for letter in oneFunction lists                             print  quot   quot   end  quot   quot    And finally  you can also make anotherFunction  accept word as a parameter which you can pass from the result of calling oneFunction  gt  gt  gt  def anotherFunction words           for letter in words                            print  quot   quot  end  quot   quot    gt  gt  gt  anotherFunction oneFunction lists

User · Answer

def anotherFunction word       for letter in word                        print      end       def oneFunction lists       category   random choice list lists keys         word   random choice lists category       return anotherFunction word

User · Answer

Everything in python is considered as object so functions are also objects  So you can use this method as well   def fun1        fun1 var   100     print fun1 var   def fun2        print fun1 var   fun1   fun2    print fun1 var

User · Answer

The simplest option is to use a global variable  Then create a function that gets the current word   current word      def oneFunction lists       global current word     word random choice lists category       current word   word  def anotherFunction        for letter in get word                            print     end        def get word          return current word   The advantage of this is that maybe your functions are in different modules and need to access the variable

User · Answer

def oneFunction lists       category random choice list lists keys         word random choice lists category       return word  def anotherFunction        for letter in word                       print  quot   quot  end  quot   quot

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