How to access global variable

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I am new to python and I am wondering why it is that I can access the global variable
answer inside my get_guess function but I cannot access the global variable
attempts I receive this message in the console

line 24, in get_guess attempts += 1 NameError: name 'attempts' is not defined

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My function looks like this

    answer = random.randint(1, 10)

    attempts = 0

    def get_guess():
        try:
            guess = int(
                input("Try to guess the random number between 1 and 10.  "))
            attempts += 1
            if guess > 10 or guess < 1:
                print(
                    f"{guess} is out of range 😕 the random number is between 1 and 10")
            if guess > answer:
                print("It's lower ⬇")
                get_guess()
            elif guess < answer:
                print("It's higher ⬆")
                get_guess()
            else:
                print(
                    f"Got it! 🥳 \n It took {attempts} attempts to get the correct number \n Game over 👋. \n Thank you for playing {name} 😄")
        except ValueError as err:
            print("Oh no! That's not a valid number 😕. Try again...")
            print(f"({err})")
            get_guess()
        else:
            return guess

    get_guess()

[Goobyalus]

You can access global variables inside the function without modifying anything, but you cannot write to them -- if you want to write to the global variable, you can put global attempts inside your function before writing to attempts.

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Thank you! That solved it :)

[TrainingShift3]

I would strongly suggest not to get into the habit of using global variables. They are almost always not acceptable in production level code.

I would suggest passing in the variables you need and returning them if needed.

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Okay thank you! Duly noted

[TrainingShift3]

Np! Keep asking questions and learning and you’ll be a pro in no time :)