Question

I am trying to make a def function that uses ra_input, and the data is to be used outside the function. The function is to be called many times.

var1=""
var2=""
theresult=""
def getstuff():
    theresult = raw_input("Enter your result")
print "Here is the result:"

print theresult

no result appears.
Tried return, and tried return(), and tried return result, and tried return(result),
anyone help??
Also why the box below unformatted when I type the question??

Answer 1

The cleanest way would probably be:

def getstuff():
    return raw_input("Enter your result")

theresult = getstuff()
print theresult

Another option would be to use global, but I don’t think it would be justified here.