whats wrong?

Question

im trying to make a "button" that you can click and not click (obviously). when im giving the commend to click its not working... the code:

clicked = False

def click():
clicked = True

def un_click():
clicked = False

click()

if clicked == True:
print ("the button is clicked...")
else:
print ("the button is not clicked")

Answer 1

try this

clicked = False

def click():
global clicked
clicked = True

def un_click():
global clicked
clicked = False

click()

if clicked == True:
print ("the button is clicked...")
else:
print ("the button is not clicked")

why "global clicked" inside function?
Because python is over-smart and assume that we are making a new local variable "clicked" rather than assuming "clicked" as global.

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But remember this has nothing to do with printing global variable.
for example:

s = "Hello"
def func() :
print(s)
func()

output:
Hello

Note: we don't need to declare "global s" inside the func since we are only printing
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Only when assignment/changing the global variable inside function you need to declare the variable as global inside the function where you are assignment or changing it

Answer 2

The way you wrote it, you define three 'clicked' variables: one in the global context, one in the context of click() method and one in the context of un_click() method.

In order for both methods to relate to the same, global variable, you have to add:
global clicked
as the first row in each method definition:

def click():
global clicked
clicked = True

Answer 3

RKK , thank you!