Python reading variable in another py file wrongly

[deanhystad]

This is a scope problem and has nothing to do event_request being in another file. You would have the same probem if this were all in one file.

The problem is you have two exit_request variables. One in events and one in events.update_events. If you want these to reference the same thing you need to rewrite update_events like this:

def update_events():
    global exit_request
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if(event.type == pygame.QUIT):
            exit_request = event

This tells Python to use events.exit_request instead of creating events.update_events.exit_request when you do this:

exit_request = event

By default assignment inside a function creates a new variable. If this were not the case there would be no way to make "local" variables. To prevent this from happening you need to define the variable as "global".