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

wordList is not instantiated as a list or not in scope.

If wordList is a global variable, the beginning of your function will need global wordList Not needed because the object is mutated

If the list should only be in scope of the function you will need to instantiate it as a list.

wordList = []

Edit: as deceze pointed out

Within the function itself you should be appending to the list since the index does not exists.

wordList.append(word)