Just to add to what Randall has said: When you declare a local variable in Python - that is, a variable that is declared within a function definition - it "shadows" any other variable of that name until the function exits. This means that if you assign a value to a variable of that name, Python creates a new one and uses that within the function. Many languages operate that way, not just Python. As Randall said, you can defeat this by using the "global" statement. It still isn't really "global", though. I believe it applies just within the same module as the function is defined in. Cheers, Tom P Randall F. Kern wrote - This is just normal python. When you want to assign to a global variable inside a function, you have to declare the variable as a global: _stateVariable = 0 class def func()
global _stateVariable
_stateVariable = 1
-Randy