[Zope] Functions in a python script

[J. Cameron Cooper]

>
>
>foo = 'a great text'
>
>def bar():
>  # error below
>  return foo
>
>return bar()
>==/SNIP==
>It makes a "NameError" on "foo" !!!
>If the first line of bar() is "global foo", this does not change anything.
>
>How to use python functions inside Zope python scripts ?
>Is it reserved for External methods ?
>Should I provide all "globals" as arguments to the function ?
>
Python scripts are secretly made into functions themselves, and with 
Python < 2.1 you can't do a def inside a def. That's fixed in Python 
2.1, which Zope 2.4 requires. See the thread starting with

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-July/094909.html

for more details and a work-around.

            --jcc
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