Hi! I'm trying to get the week 6 problem set working...am having trouble with "global variables"...with respect to the function get_words_to_points, how should I fix it so that points_dict becomes a global variable? Thanks!

def get_words_to_points(word_list):
points_dict={}
global points_dict
for word in word_list:
points_dict[word]=(get_word_score(word,7))
return points_dict

Question

Hi! I'm trying to get the week 6 problem set working...am having trouble with "global variables"...with respect to the function get_words_to_points, how should I fix it so that points_dict becomes a global variable? Thanks!

def get_words_to_points(word_list):
        points_dict={}
        global points_dict
        for word in word_list:
            points_dict[word]=(get_word_score(word,7))
        return points_dict

anonymous · Answer

You create and change global variables this way:
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global global_variable_name # Initializing
global_variable_name = 'foo' # Assignment

anonymous · Answer

why do you think you need to declare points_dict global inside of that function block?

anonymous · Answer

Also, are you sure you want to hard code the hand size as 7 in your call to get_word_score()? - is there a variable that represents hand size that you could use instead?