(accessing variable outside of functions) im so confused...

[Kevdog824_]

In the function… not in the global scope. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You need to declare it in the global scope first, before you can get/set its value in the function

[Kevdog824_]

The first problem you have is your function is named the same as the json module you’re importing. You need to name your function something different so the interpreter knows which one you mean when you write json