Passing a variable between Python functions

Question

I am new to Python and coding and am trying to figure out how to pass the result of one function to a calling function so that the variable passed can be used within the calling function.

In the code below, I get an error that states that:

global name 'quiz' is not defined.

My intent is to pass back a string to be printed based upon user input.

difficulty = raw_input("Please enter the level of difficulty: easy, medium, or hard: ")
def test_method(difficulty):
 if difficulty == 'easy':
 quiz = "Yup - quiz me"
 else:
 quiz = "Nope - yikes!"
 return quiz

I've tried using print quiz here and the expected string prints. But what I would really like to do is pass back the quiz variable to the calling function and then print the result from there.

def test_call(difficulty):
 test_method(difficulty)
 print quiz
test_call(difficulty)

Answer 1

Just assign and / or return quiz

def test_call(difficulty):
 quiz = test_method(difficulty)
 print quiz
 return quiz

• Aaron: Thank you BenJ! That did the trick - your help is much appreciated!
• BenJ: @Aaron Glad I could help!