>Am I misunderstanding how to use global and local variables?

Yes. Your `new_game()` function creates a local variable, and your `input()` function tries to access a global variable which `new_game()` didn't create. It isn't enough to say `global` in one function in the program, that doesn't make the same name global in all other functions.


&gt;Am I misunderstanding how to use global and local variables?

Yes. Your `new_game()` function creates a local variable, and your `input()` function tries to access a global variable which `new_game()` didn't create. It isn't enough to say `global` in one function in the program, that doesn't make the same name global in all other functions.


First a bit of my code:

    def new_game():
    num = 100
    secret_number = random.randint(0,100)
    remaining_turns = math.ceil(math.log(num+1,2))
    
    def input(guess):
    global remaining_turns, secret_number
    remaining_turns = remaining_turns - 1

NameError: name 'remaining_turns' is not defined

What am I doing wrong here? I thought I defined it on line 4, yet it says its undefined on line 8. Am I misunderstanding how to use global and local variables?

[Python] Don't understand the error