title: Python - Updating Variable in For Loop
body: <p>So I decided to write Monopoly in Python, but I'm having some trouble updating the players location. I wrote  a for loop that iterates through the players, rolls the dice for each one, and then updates their location. The problem is that the location variable isn't keeping the latest location, it keeps resetting back to 0 at the start of the for loop. Here's my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>player1location = 0
  
  def turn(numberPlayers, player, player1location, Board):
      for player in range(numberPlayers):
          player = 'Player'+str(player+1)
          print 'It\'s', player, 'turn!'
          print player1location
          rollDice = raw_input('Press Enter to roll the dice!')
          diceRoll = random.randint(1,6)
          print player, 'rolled a', diceRoll
          player1location = player1location + diceRoll
          print 'You landed on', player1location
          print '\n'
  
  while True:
      turn(numberPlayers, player, player1location, Board)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can provide more of the code if necessary, but I think this is everything that controls the players location. Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: So apparently I'm changing the local variable instead of the global variable. How would I change the global variable instead?</p>