global … is not defined python

Question

I need to read some words text by text in python, and I am getting this error. \"NameError: global name \'wordList\' is not defined.

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Answer 1

You need to define wordList to begin with. And you cannot randomly assign indexes in an empty list. You can easily 'extend' the list with new values.

worldList = []
with fitxer as f:
    for line in f:
        wordList.extend(line.split())
return wordList