Python I cannot append to a list

[Kaworu]

Hi!

I am currently translating a text from English to Polish. I have a file with translations of terms and right now I have lists (not in Python, just lists) of copy-paste translations terms. I decided it would be much easier to just run a Python script and do the copy-paste translations for me instead of doing the laborious tasks manually.

For some reason, when I try to use append Method to add Polish versions of terms to the list, I get a SyntaxError (in the place the dot is located).

The troublesome part looks like it:

final_list = list()
for item in trans_list:
    for item2 in ENG_list_2:
        if findingENGword(item2) == item:
            global final_list.append(findingPOLword(item2)) #Error here!!!
            break
        else:
            continue

The error I get is this:

  File "E:\Personal Data\My Folders\RPG\Cypher System The Strange\Cypher System\SRD\GitHub\Nowe\CSRD-main\CSRD-main\(0) Dodatki\Python_abi_temp.py", line 50
    global final_list.append(findingPOLword(item2))
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I would appreciate help 🙂

 

[menator01]

The error is telling you what's wrong.
You should avoid using global is possible

 

[Godwin]

The issue is you're misusing the global keyword. Global is used to declare that a variable inside a function refers to a global variable, but it doesn't work with method calls like append() in Python.
It should be:: final_list.append(findingPOLword(item2)) # No 'global' keyword needed