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What does print(change(), marks) print?
Short answer. 6 5.
Why is marks still 5?
The function made a local marks; the global was never touched.
Remember
| Storing inside makes a local |
| The global stays the same |
A classic exam question. Most students get the second number wrong. Inside change, marks equals two makes a new local. It returns six. The global marks stays five. Storing inside a function makes a local. The global stays the same.
This clip is from the full lesson: Scope of Variables: Local and Global — 6 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications, ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications, ISC Class 12 Computer Science (868)
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