Using name of strings in different functions

Question

I need to use movies_list from the first function in the second. How do I do that?

def movie():
    movies_list = [movie.strip() for movie in movies         


        

Answer 1

Make the second function nested on the first one, here you have an example:

def hello():
    a = "hello"
    def world():
        return "%s world" % a
    return world()
print hello()

Answer 2

put the two functions in a class, and make movies_list a class variable.

Answer 3

The Good

Use return and arguments

def movie():
    movies_list = [movie.strip() for movie in movies_list]
    movie_explorer()
    return movies_list

def rand(movies_list):
    rand_item = print(random.choice(movies_list))

And when calling rand remember to call the function as

rand(movie())

The Bad

Add a line

global movies_list

as the first line in both functions

And the Ugly

You can make use of the globals object available. (Adding it here to complete the rhyme)

def movie():
    global movie_returns
    movie_returns = [movie.strip() for movie in movies_list]
    movie_explorer()
    # No return

def rand():  # No argument
    movies_list = next((globals()[v] for v in globals() if v=='movies_return'))
    rand_item = random.choice(movies_list)