I am trying to change global value x from within another functions scope as the following code shows,
x = 1
def add_one(x):
x += 1
then I execute the sequence of statements on Python's interactive terminal as follows.
>>> x
1
>>> x += 1
>>> x
2
>>> add_one(x)
>>> x
2
Why is x still 2 and not 3?
解决方案
Because x is a local (all function arguments are), not a global, and integers are not mutable.
So x += 1 is the same as x = x + 1, producing a new integer object, and x is rebound to that.
You can mark x a global in the function:
def add_one():
global x
x += 1
There is no point in passing in x as an argument here.