I have a function that parses a file into a list. I'm trying to return that list so I can use it in other functions.

def splitNet():network = []for line in open("/home/tom/Dropbox/CN/Python/CW2/network.txt","r").readlines():line = line.replace("\r\n", "")line = string.split(line, ',')line = map(int, line)network.append(line)return network

When I try to print the list outside of the function (for debugging) I get this error:

NameError: name 'network' is not defined

Is there something simple I am doing wrong or is there a better way to pass variables between functions without using globals?

Variables cannot be accessed outside the scope of a function they were defined in.

Simply do this:

network = splitNet()
print network