The variable created by time.time() shouldn't be immutable, right? Therefore, I should be able to change it to something else. I'm having trouble doing this, and it doesn't seem like the .sleep() method helps.
I set a variable e, to the current time. I print e. Then I update the variable e, using a function. Then I print e. The two printed values should be different, but they aren't. How do I achieve the correct update to the "global" variable e?
import time
e = time.time()
print ('e is %f') %e
time.sleep(1.12)
def uu(x):
#time.sleep(2)
x = time.time()
uu(e)
print ('%f') %e
No matter when I put the time delay, the two prints of e are exactly the same. However, I passed e to the function, and e is not immutable, but it doesn't change with the new assignment statement (even if there was a time delay before the call of the function [externally or internally]).
I'm expecting an output like
e is 1432940101.000643
1432940102.120643
Where the first value a second value differ by any amount.
This is a scope/namespace issue. e is declared Globally. Even though I pass e into the function uu, that doesn't change the globally defined value of e.
However, if I were to put a print statement within uu then e with the scope of that function, would have a different value.