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Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this

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Yes I want to store an amount of money which will change from many places within the code. Absolutely correct.  I am very "green" to this, if you're familiar, with "dopewars" the concept is very similar. 

for my practice trials I used.. selection_b = input()

 and manually input an amount of money, and used a loop of:

loop = 1
while loop < 5: 

just to get a feel of how it would work but, every time I travel to a new destination and buy something the amount of money is reset. And I am working to prevent this so that I can maintain a running tally until the loop is complete.   
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> I currently working on a game, where I need to maintain a running tally of money, as the player makes purchases as they navigate thru game.   I not exactly sure how to do this in python.  I know it is a fairly basic step, nonetheless.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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> If I understand correctly you want to store the amount of money in a variable as a number that can be changed from many places within the code.
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>     def do_some_adventuring():
>         ... # Add some money
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> You can "add some money" with:
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>         global money # Allow changing money from within the function
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>         money += 10 # for example
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> Is that it?
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> Note that normally you'd have some class of player with a money attribute which can be accessed, but as a guess from the question I'm not sure you know about classes yet.

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Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this gratedmedia@gmail.com - 2013-08-05 18:01 -0700
  Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-06 02:56 +0100
    Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this gratedmedia@gmail.com - 2013-08-06 04:00 -0700
  Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-06 02:15 +0000
    Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this gratedmedia@gmail.com - 2013-08-06 08:24 -0700
      Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-07 13:02 +0100

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