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On 9/2/2011 12:53 PM, Travis Parks wrote:
> On Sep 2, 12:36 pm, "Gabriel Genellina"<gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar>

>> Those if/else are at global scope. An 'if' statement does not introduce a
>> new scope; so getDictValues, despite being "indented", is defined at
>> global scope, and may be used anywhere in the module.

> Does that mean the rules would be different inside a function?

Yes. Inside a function, you would have to add
     global getDictValues
before the if statement in order for the assignments to have global effect.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy