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[chrome timber]

I feel like a dumbass ive been stuck on this thing for a while (on the bottom biscuittime is not defined)

[distant oxide]

@chrome timber

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[restive grove]

where do you define BiscuitTime?

[chrome timber]

thats the thing idk where i should

im sorry if i sound stupid i started python recently

[restive grove]

we all start somewhere

do you understand scope?

[chrome timber]

no 😭

i dont even think i learned that yet

[restive grove]

def foo():
  my_variable = 42
  print(my_variable)

in that code above my_variable is only available in the foo function. Outside of it, it is not available. That's the basics of scope. Another way to think of it is that every level of indentation is a new level of scope, and you can't use a variable in the outer scope

while there are better ways to do it, since you're learning you can do something like this: ```py

my_variable = 42

def foo():
my_variable = "something else"

if ...:
my_variable = "a third thing"

[chrome timber]

alright ty

[restive grove]

sure thing

if you want to do further reading on it, the keywords for that are global variable and global scope

[chrome timber]

alr

[distant oxide]

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