I have this function that is supposed to count points but it doesn't add them

Question

I have this function that is supposed to count points but it doesn\'t add them:

def Correct(totalPoints):
    print \"Correct\"
    totalPoints = totalPoints+1
          


        

Answer 1

totalPoint must be declared as a global variable

and make the refernece in the function so python can update that value and not creating a new variable

def Correct(totalPoints):
    global totalPoints
    print "Correct"
    totalPoints = totalPoints+1
    print "You have", totalPoints,"points"