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I'm working with Tkinter in Python and am using OptionMenu and want to get the selection the us… Read more Python: Getting Option From Function?

I am translating some code from lisp to Python. In lisp, you can have a let construct with the vari… Read more How To Create Dynamical Scoped Variables In Python?

I'm new here and am not 100% sure how to ask this question so I'll just dive right in. Sho… Read more Scope Of Imported Modules/functions In Python

If I use the Python function random.seed(my_seed) in one class in my module, will this seed remain … Read more What Is The Scope Of A Random Seed In Python?

How do I convert kwargs objects into local variables? I am a math teacher and I want to write a hel… Read more Converting Kwargs Into Variables?

In the python code below, variable number is passed to the function addone, and a local copy is ope… Read more Why Do List Operations In Python Operate Outside Of The Function Scope?

I have a Python module that is intended exclusively for running as a script and never as something … Read more What's The Best Practice For Writing An "execute Only" Python Module?

Just for the sake of curiosity I wanna know this.. I know scope of inner function is limited to out… Read more Can We Access Inner Function Outside Its Scope Of Outer Function In Python Using Outer Function?

Currently, my code is like this: for control in self.controls(): self.connect(control, SIGNAL(… Read more Lambda Function And Variable Scope

Why does the variable L gets manipulated in the sorting(L) function call? In other languages, a co… Read more Python Variable Scope (passing By Reference Or Copy?)

Following up on Reason for unintuitive UnboundLocalError behaviour (I will assume you've read i… Read more Reason For Unintuitive Unboundlocalerror Behaviour 2

How can I change a global variable STOP to True? As I understand, the problem is with the scope of … Read more Python's Multiprocessing.pool Process Global Scope Problem

I'm currently learning Python, and I have to work on a Python 2.7 project. Accessing 'modul… Read more Accessing "module Scope" Vars

Here is a sample of code where a function is run repeatedly with new information for most of the in… Read more Python Variable Contents Changed By Function When No Change Is Intended

Consider the following: def test(s): globals()['a'] = s sandbox = {'test': tes… Read more Python Eval(compile(...), Sandbox), Globals Go In Sandbox Unless In Def, Why?

Question: What does Python do under the hood when it sees this kind of expression? sum(sum(i) for… Read more Generator Expression Evaluation With Several ... For ... In ... Parts

In this code Why after buying the things does the money not go down? This has been a problem to me… Read more Global Scope Variable Unchanging In Python

I'm a very inexperienced programmer creating a game (using Python 3.3) as a learning exercise. … Read more Access Objects From Another Module

My text editor of choice is extensible through python plugins. It requires me to extend classes and… Read more Variable Scope Outside Of Classes

I'm a programmer coming from Python background which typically uses lexical scoping and I want … Read more How To Understand Dynamic Scoping Using Python Code?