Passing variables between functions

[America]

I am a first time user, but need some urgent simple help.

I have information that is local to a function,but I want to use this information in another function called getInput. I will show example below. I have tried placing information in main, but it keeps coming up with nameA not defined.

nameA and name B appear in the printIntro, and I have obtained these values from raw_input, and they are included in print statements and work fine.

I wish to include these values in getInput()

in a print statement
print nameA "has a probability of", a (a and b are local to the getInputs)
print nameB "has a probability of", b

Bartonc or anybody else can you help

Thanks Jen

[DeMan]

Hi America,

Welcome to TSDN. I'm sure you will find a wealth of information available in the various forums. These can be found by selecting a link to a drop-down list on the blue menu bar near the top of the screen. Unfortunately, I am not sure of the language you are using and can't redirect this post.

I hope the experts in the relevant forum can assist with your enquiry.

[America]

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

I am using Python Programming.

[DeMan]

Bartonc will be your man (as you suggested earlier)......
I will move this to the Python Forum and alert him to it.....

[America]

Bartonc will be your man (as you suggested earlier)......
I will move this to the Python Forum and alert him to it.....

Thanks for your efficiency.

[bvdet]

I am a first time user, but need some urgent simple help.

I have information that is local to a function,but I want to use this information in another function called getInput. I will show example below. I have tried placing information in main, but it keeps coming up with nameA not defined.

nameA and name B appear in the printIntro, and I have obtained these values from raw_input, and they are included in print statements and work fine.

I wish to include these values in getInput()

in a print statement
print nameA "has a probability of", a (a and b are local to the getInputs)
print nameB "has a probability of", b

Bartonc or anybody else can you help

Thanks Jen

I am not sure what you are trying to do because you did not show us much of your code. I would suggest that you try returning values from one function into another function as arguments:

def printIntro(a,b):
    nameA = 'Case 1'
    nameB = 'Case 2'
    print nameA, "has a probability of", a
    print nameB, "has a probability of", b
 
def getInput():
    a = 0.75
    b = 0.5
    return a, b
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    printIntro(*getInput())