How to accept user input from within a function?

I am new to Python. This code snippet is supposed to define a function getinput(), which is supposed to accept user input and put that value into variable stuff. Then I call the function, and print the value of the variable stuff.

def getinput():
  stuff = input("Please enter something.")
getinput()
print(stuff)

The problem is that the program is not working as expected and I get the error:

NameError: name 'stuff' is not defined

In contrast, without defining and calling a function, this code works just fine:

stuff = input("Please enter something.")
print(stuff)

And I can't figure out why that should be so.

Please help. I am learning Python to coach my kid through his school course, and I am using Google Colab with Python 3.7.11, I believe.

Solution

There is a lot of possibilities of printing stuff that you could do -

def getinput():
  stuff = input("Please enter something.")
  print(stuff)
getinput()

You can print it inside function and call it

def getinput():
  stuff = input("Please enter something.")
  return stuff
print(getinput())

You can return the stuff and print it (BEST Solution)

def getinput():
    global stuff
    stuff = input("Please enter something.")

getinput()
print(stuff)

Or you could use global keyword